US History Chapter 2

Italian sailor who sailed for Spain looking for a new route to the Orient

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolome de las Casas

• Hernando Cortes

Explored Panama

• Hernando Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Looked for a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Found the "Straits of Magellan" - circumnavigated the globe

• Leif Erikson

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Henry Hudson

A narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water.

• island

• peninsula

• strait

Travel completely around

• circumnavigate

• strait

• submerge

soldiers/adventurers

• Conquistadors

• missionaries

• mercantilism

Conquered the Aztecs. He was searching for Gold!

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando Cortes

• John Cabot

Ruler of the Aztecs. Cortes took him prisoner.

• Coureurs de bois

• Leif Erikson

• Moctezuma

Large farms worked by laborers who lived on the properties.

• plantations

• nomad farms

• creoles

Land grants including the right to collect taxes and labor from Native Americans

• plantations

• Encomiendas

• missionaries