roots of american history
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danielvanb on October 29, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 crusades | 1096 Christian Europe aim to reclaim Jerusalem and aid they Byzantines; 1st success and the rest a failure; weakens the Byzantines; opens up trade |
| astrobale | sailors could determine the positions of sarts and figure out the latitude at sea |
| great silk road | trade route between China and the Roman Empire |
| islam | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life |
| koran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina |
| conquistador | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) |
| presidio | a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings |
| mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) |
| encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it |
| peninsulare | person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony |
| plantation | garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth |
| colony | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland |
| columbian exchange | The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans |
| northwest passage | a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America |
| prince henry the navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. |
| king ferdinand and queen isabella of spain | People that financed Columbus's journey |
| nina | One of Columbus' three ships |
| pinta | One of Columbus' three ships |
| santa maria | One of Columbus' three ships |
| tainos | The people Columbus came in contact with in the West Indies. |
| christopher columbus |  Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) |
| bahamas |  island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba |
| west indies |  the string of islands between North and South America |
| vasco da gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. |
| ferdinand magellan | Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain he circumnavigated the world |
| hernan cortez | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) |
| moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes. |
| quetzalcoatl | an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent |
| tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. |
| francisco pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) |
| atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. |
| ponce de leon | Explored Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth |
| hernando de soto | Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain |
| francisco coronado | A Spanish soldier and commander; in 1540, he led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona; he was searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, but only found Adobe pueblos. |
| st. augustine, fl | First & OLDEST SETTLEMENT in the US; Founded in 1565 Spanish explorer (admiral, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés), it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the United States. |
| bartolome de las casas | First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor, |
| st. martin de porres | Born in 1579 to a Spanish nobleman and a free black woman; He became a barber, which in those days also was a doctor, surgeon, and a pharmacist; He became a success because he was known as a healer and a hero to both blacks and Indians, both which he served equally; All the money he made he gave to the poor; At age 18 he gave his life to God; He entered the Dominican monastery as a third order laborer; He helped the sick and dying in the infirmary both through physical and mental healing; He understood his material goods were merely a means to an end and that end was to help others; He helped the poor for all sixty years of his life; He is an example of discipleship because he have his possesions and wealth away to follow Jesus |
| tepeyac | The site where the Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego |
| our lady of guadalupe | considered the patron saint of the Americas |
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