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Roman Catholic Church |
church that Europeans were members of |
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San Salvador |
place where Columbus first landed |
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Spain |
country Columbus sailed for |
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Portugal |
country Columbus was from |
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Indians |
what Columbus called the natives in the Caribban |
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Leif Eriksson |
first man to travel to america in 1000 AD |
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October 12th, 1492 |
day Columbus discovered America |
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India |
place Columbus thought he had landed |
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Amerigo Vespucci |
man America was named for by a cartographer |
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Jacques Cartier |
explored the St. Lawrence river |
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Protestant Reform |
divided the Catholic Church |
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Martin Luther |
German priest who challenged the ideas of the Catholic Church |
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Lutherans |
Martin Luther's followers |
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John Calvin |
leader of the Presbyterians in Switzerland |
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Presbyterians (Huguenots) |
John Calvin's followers |
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Ponce de Leon |
discovered Florida |
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Fountain of Youth |
what Ponce de Leon was searching for |
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Hernando de Soto |
explored the southeast and was the first white man to see the Mississippi River |
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Santa Elena |
outpost on the Carolina coast by the Spanish |
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Pedro Menendez de Aviles |
governor of La Florida |
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St. Augustine |
spanish military post; first settlement in NA and the oldest still around |
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