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Jude 8th - Chapter 2
Chapter 2: European Exploration and Settlement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer who traveled throughout Asia with his father |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who was convinced the shortest route to the Indies lay west across the Atlantic Ocean |
| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | paid for Columbus' voyage |
| 1492 | year that Columbus set sail |
| Columbian Exchange | exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas |
| negative impact of the Columbian Exchange | diseases |
| positive impact of the Columbian Exchange | new crops and domesticated animals |
| Africans and Natives | people who the Spanish settlers enslaved |
| conquistador | Spanish explorer and soldier |
| Hernan Cortes | conquistador who conquered the Aztec people in Mexico |
| Tenochtitlan | capital city of the Aztec empire |
| Mexico City | what the Spanish renamed Tenochtitlan after they captured it |
| New Spain | name of the Spanish empire in the New World |
| Francisco Pizarro | conquistador who conquered the Inca people in Peru |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | conquistador who wanted to find the fountain of youth |
| colony | new settlement established by another country in another land |
| Seven Cities of Cibola | legend of seven cities made of gold |
| Francisco Coronado | conquistador who set out from Mexico City to find the cities of gold |
| pueblos | village of apartment like buildings made of stone and adobe |
| St. Augustine | oldest permanent European settlement in the United States |
| Catholic missionaries | accompanied conquistadores to the Spanish borderlands in hopes of converting the Native Americans |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer who was set to explore the Atlantic coastline of America and hoped to find a Northwest Passage |
| Northwest Passage | a passage that was thought to connect the east and west coasts of the continent of North America that does not exisit |
| Samuel de Champlain | sailed up the St. Lawrence River and built a trading post named Quebec |
| Quebec | French trading post |
| Coureurs de bois | French fur trappers |
| Huron | Native American allies of the French |
| Iroquois | Native American allies of the Dutch |
| Fr. Marquette and Louis Joliet | discovered the Mississippi River |
| Robert de La Salle | explored the entire length of the Mississippi River and claimed it all west of it for France, calling it Louisiana |
| John Cabot | hoping to find a route to Asia, landed in Newfoundland and claimed the land for England |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | tried to start two colonies in Roanoke that both failed |
| CROATON | mysterious word left by the Roanoke colonists |
| Jamestown | English colony named after King James I |
| John Smith | took control of Jamestown and forced everyone to work before they ate |
| Pocahontas | Native American girl who helped save Jamestown from starvation |
| Starving Time | harsh winter where many Jamestown colonists starved because they did not have enough food |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas and discovered tobacco as a cash crop |
| Henry Hudson | sailor who explored the north Atlantic coastline for the Netherlands, hoping to find a Northwest Passage |
| Hudson River | named after Henry Hudson |
| Dutch | people from the Netherlands |
| Dutch West India Company | company started by Dutch merchants to start a colony in America |
| New Amsterdam | name of the Dutch colony |
| New York | name of the English colony that was taken over from the Dutch |
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