Vocabulary 1
to travel around
circumnavigate
large farms worked by laborers who live on the property
plantations
Cortes marched into this Aztec capital city
Tenochtitlan
When Ponce de Leon went to Florida, he became the first Spaniard to set foot in what is now the United States
True
First European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water
strait
Event that brought new domestic animals, food, plants and diseases to America
Columbian Exchange
Columbus's three ships were named?
When the Inca people paid Pizarro a ransom for their leader, Pizarro released him.
False
Aztec leader, who met with Cortes offering him gold to leave
Moctezuma
soldier-adventurers, Spanish soldiers sent to conquer
conquistadors
traditional story of unknown authorship
myth
People of Spanish and African heritage
Mulattos
The Spanish paid Native Americans to work in the gold and silver mines.
Spanish priest who traveled through New Spain working for a reform for the Native Americans
Bartolome de Las Casas
religious settlements
missions
Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain
peninsulares
The country that sponsored Columbus's voyage
Spain
Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain occupied the Mestizo level of society.
False
Portuguese explorer who discovered an Atlantic-Pacific passage
Ferdinand Magellan
territorial district of a country
province
the right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans
encomiendas
3 reasons why the Spanish were victorious
1. Technology
2. Horses
3. Native American Division
Coureurs de bois, the French term for "runners of the woods," were independent traders who lived among the Indians.
True
a viking who sailed from Greenland in 1001, to investigate reports of land farther west.
Leif Erikson