Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. an agreement between parties that benefits them both
- 4. a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water
- 6. Columbus an Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and landed in the Caribbean islands when looking for a route to Asia
- 11. a land grant given by the Spanish government that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
- 12. Cortés a conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in 1520
- 14. passage a hypothetical sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America
- 16. a system that held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful
- 18. Marquette a French missionary who explored the Mississippi River
- 19. Núñez de Balboa a Spanish colonist who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
- 20. Cabot an Italian explorer who disappeared while on his second voyage to find a northern route to Asia
Down
- 1. a Spanish colonist who was born in Spain
- 2. a large farm worked by laborers who lived on the property
- 5. Magellan a Portuguese explorer who found an Atlantic-Pacific passage. He was the first to circumnavigate the world.
- 6. to travel all the way around
- 7. Hudson an English explorer who attempted to find a northwest passage
- 8. de Champlain a French explorer who established the settlement of Quebec
- 9. de bois independent traders who lived among the Indians (French term for “runners of the woods”)
- 10. the Aztec leader who tried to turn Cortés away from Tenochtitlán
- 13. Spanish soldier-adventurers
- 15. de Las Casas^a Spanish priest who worked for reform of the encomienda system
- 17. a religious settlement