Week 4 history

Vocabulary

15 cards·by Kady Thomas

Conquer

to defeat in combat

Aztec

people conquered by Cortes

Henry Hudson

claimed land for Holland

Pedro Menendez de Aviles

St. Augustine founder

Jacques Cartier

French Explorer who discovered Newfoundland

Ponce de Leon

Spanish explorer who searched for the fountain of youth and discovered Florida

Hernan Cortes

spanish explorer who conquered the aztecs

John Cabot

Italian explorer sponsered by England who explored Canada

Cartographer

mapmaker

Colonize

to establish a colony

Colony

a group of people who settle far from home and maintain ties with their home country

Christianity

the religion based on life and the teachings of Jesus Christ

Age of Discovery

a period of time from the 15th to teh 17th century in which Europeans explored and mapped the world

New World

Western hemisphere, including North and South America

Explorer

someone who travels in gain geographical or scientific information