Module 2 Flashcards
Leif Eriksson
Son of Erik the Red, was also an adventurer.
Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator was responsible for advances that would make an exploration more successful he founded the school of navigation.
Astrolabe
A device that enabled Navigators to learn their ships location by charting the position of the Stars.
Caravels
Ships that used triangular sails to sail Against the Wind, and had Rudders to improve steering.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus, a sailor from Genoa, Italy. he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Line of Demarcation
Boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World.
Treaty of Tordesillas
A treaty between Spain and Portugal that moved The line of demarcation
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese Navigator, set out with the Spanish Fleet to sail down the east coast of South America.
circumnavigate
To travel all the way around the globe.
Columbian Exchange
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Conquistadors
A Spanish Soldier and explorer who led military Expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Conquistador Hernan Cortes left the island of Cuba to sail to present day Mexico in 1519.
Moctezuma II
West King
Francisco Pizarro
Another Spanish Conquistador
encomienda system
A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or demand for labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity.
Plantations
A large farm that usually specialized in a growing one kind of crop for profit.
Bartolome de Las Casas
A priest that tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Protestant Reformation
A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church.
Protestants
Reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church.
Spanish Armada
A large Spanish Fleet defeated by England and 1588
Northwest Passage
A non-existent pass through North America that early explorers search for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Carter
A French sailor that led Francis next major exploration of North America.
Charter
An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.
