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Christopher Columbus

Discovered America

Vasco (Nunez) de Balboa

A Spanish colonist, explored the Carribean and the coast of Panama

Ferdinand Magellan

A Portuguese explorer who in Sept. 1519 set out to find the Atlantic-Pacific passage

strait

a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water

circumnavigate

(or) travel around

conquistador

Spanish soldiers-adventurers set out to explore and conquer a world unknown to them

Hernando Cortez

1519 conquistador sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers.

Moctezuma

Aztec leader and tried to get rid of Cortez by giving him gold

plantation

large farms worked by laborers who live on the property

encomienda

These were land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

Bartolome de Casas

A priest who traveled through New Spain looking working for reform

mission

religious settlements ran by Catholic priests and friars

peninsular

The people top of the social structure/Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain.

mercantilism

The system that the colonies to make the home country wealthy and powerful

northwest passage

a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around the North Americas

Henry Hudson

English Explorer that made four voyages in search of the northwest passage

Samuel de Chaplain

1603 made the first 11 voyages to explore and map lands along the St. Lawrence River

Courier de bois

(French term for runners of the woods) were independent traders who lived among the Indians

Jacques Marquette

founded two French missions along the great lakes

alliance

an arrangement between parties that benefits them both