Definition 1 of 56
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in Peru.
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizzarro
Vasco Nunez De Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Definition 2 of 56
Revolt by certain Christians in Germany, England, France, Holland, & other northern European
countries in the early 1500s against the authority of the pope in Rome.
Puritans
Catholic Reformation
Protestant Reformation
Renaissance
Definition 3 of 56
System in which the Spaniards brought captured African slaves to the New World to work;
required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas.
Henry Hudson
Headright System
New World
Asiento System
,Definition 4 of 56
Spanish conquistador who journeyed across the isthmus of Panama.
Amerigo vespucci
Robert De la Salle
Ferdinand magellan
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Definition 5 of 56
Italian sailor for whom the Americas were named; explored the east coast of South America.
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot
Ferdinand Magellan
Definition 6 of 56
First representative assembly in America established in Virginia's Jamestown.
Virginia House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
,Definition 7 of 56
Native American tribe of Central America which flourished between A.D. 300 & 800 in the
Yucatan Peninsula. Built remarkable cities in the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula (present-
day Guatemala, Belize, & southern Mexico).
Compass
Spain
Mayas
Trade
Definition 8 of 56
Probable method of arrival for the first people to arrive in the Americas. Connected Siberia &
Alaska around 40,000 years ago. Now submerged under the Bering Sea.
Trade
Land Bridge
Native Americans
Encomienda System
Definition 9 of 56
Experience English seaman hired by the Dutch government to seek a northwest passage in the
1600s; sought a northwest passage. In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up a broad river (later named
for him as the Hudson River), and established Dutch claims to the surrounding area that would
become New Amsterdam (and later New York).
Ferdinand & Isabella
Henry Hudson
Samuel De Champlain
John Cabot
, Definition 10 of 56
Ship which was aimed for Virginia & carried Pilgrims to the New World; landed too far north &
led to the founding of Plymouth. Fewer than half of the 100 passengers on this ship were
Separatists; the rest were people who had economic motives for making the voyage.
Mayflower
Printing Press
Pocahontas
Jamestown
Definition 11 of 56
European development in the 1450s that aided the spread of knowledge across Europe.
Compass
Printing Press
Steam Engine
Protestant Reformation
Definition 12 of 56
Native American tribe of Central America located in modern-day Peru.
Aztecs
Mayas
Iroquois
Incas
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