History (exploration) Flashcards
Government hired pirates?
Privateers
The right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area?
Encomiendas
Resistance?
Immunity
People born in Spain?
Peninsulares
Conquerors?
Conquistadors
People of native America and European descent?
Mestizos
Large estates run by an owner?
Plantations
Which group of people did Cortez conquer?
Aztecs
Which group did Pizarro conquer?
Incas
Which explorer led four ships around the cape of good hope in 1497?
Vasco da gama
Which explorer is most commonly known for circumnavigation?
Magellan
Which explorer is seen to be the first man to reach the Pacific Ocean, which he called the “south sea”?
Balboa
(T or F) privateers were businessmen who bought and sold African slaves.
False
(T or F) hernando Cortez and his group of 600 men landed in Mexico in 1619.
False
(T or F) Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1532.
True
(T or F) in the 1500’s, the wealth of the Americas helped make Spain the most powerful country in Europe.
True
(T or F) a lateen is a ship that combined European square sails and Arab triangular sails.
False
Set up school for exploration in Portugal?
Henry the navigator
First to circumnavigate?
Magellan
The reconquering of Spain by the Christians?
Reconquista
Sailed across the Atlantic and hacked a passage through the tropical forests of panama reaching the south sea?
Vasco nunez de balboa
Led four ships around the cape of good hope and reached the spice port of Calicut?
Vasco da gama
1488, sailed around the top of Africa, opening up a sea route to Asia?
Bartholomew Dias
1492, sailed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean?
Christopher Columbus
