Lesson 2 European Exploration

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

Crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations

the three main reasons for the European age of exploration

(runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America.

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.