European Exploration and Settlement Vocabulary Review

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas

• Colony

• Columbian Exchange

• Conquistadors

• Missionaries

• Slavery

Plants or animals that live and breed in a human environment; tame

• Colony

• Conquistadors

• Domesticated

• Missionaries

• Slavery

The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved

• Columbian Exchange

• Conquistadors

• Domesticated

• Missionaries

• Slavery

Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru

• Colony

• Conquistadors

• Colony

• Domesticated

• Missionaries

A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land

• Columbian Exchange

• Colony

• Conquistadors

• Domesticated

• Missionaries

People who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion

• Columbian Exchange

• Conquistadors

• Domesticated

• Missionaries

• Slavery

To change a person’s religious beliefs so they accept a different or new religion

• Convert

• Coureurs de Bois

• Impact

• Revolt

• Techniques

A violent action in opposition to a government or law

• Convert

• Coureurs de Bois

• Impact

• Revolt

• Techniques

To have a direct effect on a person or thing

• Convert

• Coureurs de Bois

• Impact

• Revolt

• Techniques

A specialized method used to achieve a desired result

• Convert

• Coureurs de Bois

• Impact

• Revolt

• Techniques