1: European Colonization

colonize

• to send a group of people to a place and become part of the existing culture

• to send a group of people to a place and take political control over it

• to send a group of people to a place for the purpose of spreading Christianity

• to send a group of people to a place in order to look for natural resources

a person who travels to a territory or community in order to make converts to his or her religion

• missionary

• conquistador

• craftsman

• minister

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

• missionaries

• conquistadors

• craftsmen

• mercenaries

Columbian Exchange

• the exchange of plants and animals across the Atlantic Ocean between Asia and Europe

• the exchange of plants and animals across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas

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

• the exchange of plants and animals across the Pacific Ocean between Europe and the Americas

Northwest Passage

• the water route discovered by the French that caused conflict between that country and England

• the path French explorers took to reach Asia from the Atlantic Ocean

• the path Russian explorers took that led to their claim in North America

• water route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific believed to exist through northern North America

colony

• a settlement established by Native people within the borders of a European country

• a new settlement or territory established to provide security on the border of a country

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

• a settlement established and permitted to govern itself freely in another land

slavery

• the use of people as labor rather than animals or machinery

• the treatment of people as property

• the use of people as labor with inadequate pay

• the use of one race of people as labor by another group of people

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

• conquer

• coerce

• convert

• convince