Exploring the Americas Chapter 2 Review!

Vocabulary Definition: A settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land.

• Pilgrimage

• Conquistador

• Tenant Farmer

• Crusade

Vocabulary Definition: Mythical sea route

between the Atlantic and the Pacific along

the north coast of North America

• Renaissance

• Crusade

• Northwest Passage

• Reformation

Vocabulary Definition: A reawakening of culture and

intellectual curiosity in Europe from the

1300s to the 1600s

• Renaissance

• Crusade

• Northwest Passage

• Reformation

Vocabulary Definition: Settlement created by the Spanish church in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity and work the land.

• Mission

• Pueblo

• Presidio

• Church

Vocabulary Definition: A form of Christianity that

was in opposition to the Catholic Church

• Protestantism

• Byzantium

• Luthern

• Baptist

People: Italian sailor who realized the Europeans had not made it to Asia yet.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Leif Erikkson

• Ferdinand Magellan

People: Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztecs and claimed Tenochtitlan as what will become Mexico City.

• Hernan Cortez

• Francisco Pizarro

• Leif Erikkson

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

People: Spanish explorer who defeated the Incans and claimed the largest ransom in history.

• Hernan Cortez

• Francisco Pizarro

• Leif Erikkson

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

People: Spanish priest who fought for rights for Native Americans.

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• George Washington

• Christopher Columbus

People: The group of people at the top of the Spanish social order in the New World.

• King

• Peninsulares

• Governor

• Native Americans