New Spain
The land grant system that allowed the Spanish to enslave Native Americans on "their" property.
What is the encomienda system?
Forts that housed Spanish soldiers in New Spain.
What are Presidios?
Possibly the richest man of his day, he spent so much gold that he destroyed the economy of Egypt through inflation.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The only church in Western Europe until the 1500s.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
First permanent French settlement in the North America.
What is Port Royal?
Born to Spanish parents in Spain, this group was the top of the social structure of New Spain.
What are Peninsulares?
These were set up to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What are missions?
The commander of the Chinese fleet that helped start Indian Ocean trade and brought giraffes to China.
Who is Zheng He?
A German monk that argued that the church needed to be reformed.
Who is Martin Luther?
These French "runners of the woods" lived in Native American territory and traded with the Native Americans.
What are coureurs du bois?
Born in New Spain to parents of Spanish ancestry, this group was the second most powerful in New Spain.
What are Creoles?
The exchange of ideas, people, animals, ideas, diseases, culture, and many other things from the Old World to the New World and vice versa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Italian was chartered to find a northwest passage, but discovered two continents instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A movement that broke away from the Catholic Church in an effort to reform the church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Dutch colony originally settled by Peter Minuit.
What is New Amsterdam?
New Spain was filled with these large commercial farms.
What are plantations?
Spanish word meaning "towns," the Spanish used this word to describe the sedentary Native Americans that did not move around the plains (and commit frequent raids against Spanish forts).
What are Pueblos?
This priest argued for better treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
A mythical water route from Europe through the Americas.
What is the Northwest Passage?
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
What is an alliance?
This was the most profitable crop in New Spain.
What is sugarcane?
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Name Columbus' three vessels.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
He fought with his brother for control of the Inca Empire only to be conquered by Pizarro and about 200 men.
Who is Atahualpa?
He discovered "new found land" in Canada as he was trying to find the northwest passage.
Who is John Cabot?
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.
What is a charter?