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APUSH Chapter 2 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 2 Vocabulary
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History
10th Grade
09/12/2010

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Queen Isabella
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Queen of Spain that sponsored Columbus's jounrney to "East Indies"
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King Ferdinand
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King (of Spain) alongside Queen Isabella that sponsored Columbus's journey to sail west and reach East Indies
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Christopher Columbus
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Spanish sailor that tried to sail west and reach East Indies but landed in America
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Most influential advocate of Purtugese exploration
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Captain of first fleet to land in South America (1499)
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Spanish explorer that proved Americas were a seperate continent from Asia
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Hernan Cortes
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richest and most famous Spanish conquistidor that conquered tribes of South America
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Montezuma
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Emperor of Mexican empire in South America
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Spanish priest that protested native slave labor in the Americas
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Martin Luther
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Leader of Protestant reformation
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The plague
Definition
disease that killed over 1/3 of European population
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The Reconquest
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A period of about 800 years where Spanish re-took the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty that gave Spanish the western part of the new world and the Portugese got the eastern half
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Northwest Passage
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Waterway that allowed travel westward from Europe to Asia
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Columbian exchange
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Sea bridge conecting eastern and western hemisphere
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Conquistador
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Spanish word for conqueror
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New Spain
Definition
Land colonized by Spaniards in the New World
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Royal fifth
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Monarchs owned land in New World and demanded 1/5 of findings on the new land
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Encomienda
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Distribution of conquered towns to other Spaniards
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Repartimiento
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Limited native laborers a town owner could command
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Creoles
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Children born in New World to Spanish men and women
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Mestizos
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Offspring of Spanish men and Indian women
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Pueblo Revolt
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Native rebellion to Spaniards in New Mexico
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Justification by faith
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Individual salvations could have salvation only by having faith that god could save them
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Roanoke Colony
Definition
Colony set on island off of North Carolina that vanished in 1590
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