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South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands, located in modern-day Peru.
Who are the Inca?
Two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is the Roanoke Colony?
The 16th-century religious, political, intellectual, and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders
What is a joint-stock company?
French Protestants of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, this group suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority.
Who are Huguenots?
A Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The last ruler was Moctezuma.
Who are the Aztec?
A small highly-maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a caravel?
Its greatest leaders undoubtedly were Martin Luther and John Calvin
What is the Protestant Reformation?
High rates of unemployment in cities, rapidly expanding industrial bases, and the desire to practice religion without fear of persecution.
What are the reasons for English colonization?
A document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist.
What is a charter?
An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A commercial trading company, chartered by King James I of England in April 1606 with the object of colonizing the eastern coast of North America
What is the Viriginia Company?
An enormous 130-ship naval fleet dispatched by Spain in 1588 as part of a planned invasion of England.
What is the Spanish Armada?
A large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops
What is a plantation?
This legal document can come in three forms: company, proprietary, and royal.
What is a charter?
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of conquered non-Christian people.
What is encomienda?
the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The fur trade was the real economic driver of this North American colony.
What is New France?
This document divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire,
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas
Who is Powhatan?
A settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
The site of a pre-Columbian Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri
What is Cahokia?
Coming late to the colonization of the Americas, establishing stable settlements in the 1600s after several unsuccessful attempts in the 1500s, this country's style could be characterized as haphazard.
What is England?
This Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan People, is notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Who is Pocahontas?