Chapter 5 vocabulary

Question 1

Conquistadors

Answer 1

Spanish explorers who came to the Americans in the 1500s and claimed larger areas for Spain. Conquistador means conqueror. The conquistadors often conqueror native peoples ruled over them in Spain. 🇪🇸

Question 2

Northwest passage

Answer 2

The sopposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were loooking for but never found. The explorers had hopped to find a north west passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean so they could get to Asia more quickly. 🤣

Question 3

Contagious diseases

Answer 3

Sicknesses that can pass from the person to another as germs are spread by touch or through the air. For example influenza the fluid a contagious disease. 🥴

Question 4

East Indians

Answer 4

Southeast Asia including Indonesia and Malaysia. ↘️

Question 5

Colonists

Answer 5

People who settle in Colonies.👶🏻