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New Empires In the A
CH 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conquistadores | Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistadores, sent to present day Mexico to find Moctezuma II and take over the Aztec empire and |
| Malintzin | American Indian woman who interpreted and advised the Spaniards about the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador who went to Peru and conquered the Inca empire |
| Juan Ponce De Leon | Spanish conquistador who explored Florida and looked for the Fountain of Youth, his settlement failed |
| Hernand de Soto | Spanish conquistador who searched for gold Florida, was first European to cross the Mississippi River |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | Spanish Conquistador who explored New Mexico searching for cities of gold |
| Pueblos | Spanish towns in Americas |
| Missions | settlements established by priests in Spanish America to convert local Indians to Catholicism |
| Presidios | Spanish military bases located in the Americas |
| Encomienda System | System in Spanish America that gave settlers the night to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills |
| Plantation | Large farms that usually specialize in growing one kind of crop |
| Borderlands | Region of Spanish America where few Europeans lived; included northern Mexico, FL, and parts of AZ, CA, NM, and TX |
| Pope | the Pueblo medicine man who lead the group that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico |
| Sea Dogs | English Sailors encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish treasure ships in the late 1500s |
| Inflation | Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value or money |
| Martin Luther | former Catholic priest in Germany, protested the policies of the Catholic Church, started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 |
| Protestant Reformation | religious movement started by Martin Luther that began as an effort to reform the church, spread through Germany and then to other parts of Europe, followers were called Protestants because they protested the Catholic Church’s practices |
| King Henry VIII | King of England, founded the Church of England, or Anglican church making himself the head of it |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Queen of England, Daughter of Henry VIII, Protestant who wanted peace between Protestants and Catholics |
| Spanish Armada | in response to English attacks King Philip built up a Spanish fleet of 130 ships, and 27,000 sailors and soldiers, and sent them to England to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican Church |
| Charter | official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| Walter Raleigh | half brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, paid for an expedition to present-day VA and NC and named it all VA, he sent a group to found the colony of Roanoke Island |
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