Exploring the Americas Vocabulary

Using scientific knowledge to solve real world problems.

• Technology

• Navigation

• Exploration

• Discovery

Settlers in the new world who paid rent and worked for their lord for a set number of days per year in exchange for land.

• missionary

• explorer

• conquistador

• tenant farmer

A form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church.

• Catholicism

• Paganism

• Protestantism

• Reformation

A town or center of trade in Spanish America are called_____

• Missions

• Pueblos

• Fort

• Presidio

Native Americans died by the thousands because they had no _____________ to European diseases.

• viruses

• vaccinations

• knowledge

• immunity

Magellan was the first European explorer to sail around, or _______________ the world.

• circumnavigate

• explore

• convert

• conquer

Large farms that grew crops for export

• armada

• dairy farm

• presidio

• plantation

A direct water route to Asia through the Americas

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• presidio

• southwest passage

A religious movement that rejected some of the teachings of the Catholic Church and established new churches.

• Protestantism

• Anti-Catholicism

• Age of Exploration

• Reformation

a fleet of warships, a navy

• presidio

• armada

• astrolabe

• caravel