Reconquista

• Happened from 711-1492 close to a 500 year period
• The reconquoring of Muslim Lands by The Spanish in Spain
• Signifigance- Allowed Spain to retake their homeland and focus their efforts towards emperial matters

The Reformation

• 16th century
• A split in the church due to corruption and frustration
• Began the rise of multiple sub-divisions of religions that became extremly prominent in The New World

Sugar

• A crop used to sweeten foods, grown primarilly in The Carribean and islands such as Barbados
• 1640's
• Significance- a major cash crop that could be distilled to create rum

Samuel de Champlain

• A French Explorer
• Siginificance founded Quebec and New France
• 1567-1635

Iroquois

• An North-eastern tribe of native americans
• Signicance- major resistors of the US during expansion and sided with the French in the seven year war
• 1690-1700