The Vocabulary quiz is Wednesday September 14th
Leif Eriksson - Viking explorer
Henry the Navigator - resposible for advances that would make explorations more successful.
astrolabe - a device that enabled navigators to learn their ships location by charting the position of the stars.
caravels - used triangular sails
Christopher Columbus - convinced he could find Asia by sailing west.
Line of Demarcation - divided the Atlantic Ocean. Spain could claim of land west of the line
Treaty of Tordesillas - moved the line of Demarcation 800 miles further west.
Fredinard Magellan - Portuguese navigator that tried to sail around the world
circumnavigate - go all away around the globe
Columbian exchange - movement of goods to and from the New World
conquistadors - soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
Hernan Cortes - let expeditions to the Americas
Moctezuma II - leader of the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro - led expetitions against the Incas
enocmienda system - gave the right to tax the local Native Americans
plantations - large farms that grew on kind of crop
Bartolome de Las Casas - wanted to convert Native Americans to Christiantiy
Protestant Reformation - religious movement to break away from the Catholic Church
Protestants - what the people were called that broke away from the Catholic Church
Spanish Armada - huge fleet of warships meant to defeat the English
Northwest Passage - a water route through North America that would allow ships to sale from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Jacques Cartier - French Explorer that looked for the North West Passage.
Charter - a document giving permission to start a colony
immune - had a natural resistance to diseases
Middle Passage - the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure.
African Diaspora - is the scattering of people slaves were sent all across the New World
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