Chapter 2: Exploring the Americas Vocabulary

Circumnavigate

• Spanish explorer

• fleet of warships

• trading center in Spanish America

• to go around completely

Tenant Farmer

• Spanish explorer

• fort in Spanish America

• Form of Christianity

• farmer who rents land

Conquistador

• farmer who rents land

• Spanish explorer

• sea route from Atlantic to Pacific

• natural resistance

Pueblo

• place of religious conversion of Native Americans

• trading center in Spanish America

• fleet of warships

• fort in Spanish America

Immunity

• Community for religious conversion of Native Americans

• trading center in Spanish America

• farmer who rents land

• natural resistance

Protestantism

• Religious movement to break away from the Catholic Church

• Place of religious conversion of Native Americans

• Form of Christianity that opposes the Catholic Church

• Fleet of warships

Presidio

• fort in Spanish America

• trading center in Spanish America

• place of religious conversion of Native Americans

• fleet of warships

Armada

• natural resistance

• fleet of warships

• fort in Spanish America

• Religious movement to break away from the Catholic Church

Reformation

• Place of religious conversion of Native Americans

• Religious movement that opposed the Catholic Church

• Sea route from Atlantic to Pacific

• Form of Christianity that opposes the Catholic Church

Northwest Passage

• Fort in Spanish America

• Fleet of warships

• sea route from Atlantic to Pacific

• Farmer who rents the land