7th Grade Social Studies Chapter 2 Key Terms

Who lead several voyages and discovered new lands, specifically the Americas in 1492?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

Which Portuguese explore circumnavigated Earth in 1519?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

Which term refers to a narrow passage that connects to large bodies of water?

• strait

• channel

• gulf

• inlet

If you circumnavigate, what have you done?

• traveled directly across the globe

• traveled circularly around the Earth

• traveled in a straight path across the Earth

Conquistadors

• Spanish word for soldiers

• Spanish word for voyagers

• Spanish word for sailors

• Spanish word for navigators

Which conquistador is known for defeating the Aztecs?

• Moctezuma

• Hernando Cortes

• Vasco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

large farms word by laborers who lived on the property

• plantations

• missions

• encomiendas

• colonies

land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

• peninsulares

• missions

• mercantilism

• encomiendas

Missions are

• ranches

• land grants

• religious settlements

• conquerors

peninsulares

• colonists who were born in Spain

• colonists who were born in the New World

• Native American laborers/slaves

• leaders of religious settlements