Chapter 2: First Contact

Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 1

Treaty confirmed by the pope in 1494 to resolve the claims of Spain and Portugal in the Americas.

Question 2

Silk Road

Answer 2

The overland trading route first established by the Venetian trader Marco Polo in the late 1200s.

Question 3

Columbian Exchange

Answer 3

The transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas that occurred after the first European contact with the Americas.

Question 4

New Spain

Answer 4

The name of Spain’s first empire in the Americas.

Question 5

Encomienda

Answer 5

In the Spanish colonies, the grant to a Spanish settler of a certain number of American Indian subjects, who would pay him tribute in goods and labor.

Question 6

Conquistadores

Answer 6

The name given to the early Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru.

Question 7

Seven Cities of Cibola

Answer 7

The name given by early Spanish explorers to a number of Native pueblos. Was a legend among the Spanish as they believed they were seven Spanish Christian bishops who fled Spain and went west and these seven cities were founded by them.

Question 8

Anglicans

Answer 8

Within the Church of England, one group of Protestants who wanted to establish a church that was led by the English monarchy.

Question 9

Puritans

Answer 9

Individuals who believed that reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church.