The country that supported Christopher Columbus's voyages.
What is Spain?
100
Adventurer-soldiers from Spain who set out to conquer new lands and find riches
Who were the conquistadors?
100
A sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America
What was the Northwest Passage?
100
French for "runners of the woods"
What were "coureurs de bois?"
100
Travel around the Earth
What is circumnavigate?
200
Three diseases carried into the Americas from Europe
What were 1. small pox, 2. chicken pox, 3. measles?
200
Spanish word for the land grants that allowed settlers to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
What were encomiendas?
200
English ruler who defeated the Spanish Armada
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
200
He set up France's first settlement on the banks of the St. Lawrence River and named it Quebec
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
200
A narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water
What is a strait?
300
First European to see the Pacific Ocean
Who was Vasco Nuñez de Balboa?
300
The Aztec and Inca leaders who were overthrown by Cortés and Pizarro
Who were Moctezuma and Atahualpa?
300
A system that said that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful
What is mercantilism?
300
Two Native American nations that traded with the French and the Dutch
Who were the Hurons and the Iroquois?
300
Large farms worked by laborers who lived on the property
What were plantations?
400
Italian explorer after Columbus who was convinced that the lands he saw were not part of Asia. A German mapmaker named the land after him.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
400
First Spaniard to set foot in what is now Florida in the United States.
Who was Juan Ponce de León?
400
He explored New York and the river that bears his name.
Who was Henry Hudson?
400
Two trading posts in New France that became busy centers of commerce
What were Quebec City and Montreal?
400
An agreement between parties that benefits them both
What is an alliance?
500
A transfer of people, products, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres
What was the Columbian Exchange?
500
The four levels of Spanish society in North America
What were
1. Peninsulares
2. Creoles
3. Mestizos
4. Mulattos
500
King Henry VIII set this up after he broke with the Catholic Church
What was the Church of England?
500
Trading was so profitable in New Netherland that New Netherland was made a permanent colony by this company.
Who was the Dutch West India Company?
500
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