US history module 1 vocab

Plantation

Farm where single cash crop is grown

Lineage

Line of common descent

Renaissance

Period of investigation in physical world, word means “rebirth”

Prince Henry

“Henry the Navigator” who sent Portuguese ships to explore west coast of Africa

Hierarchy

According to rank

Nuclear family

Household made up of parents and kids

Crusades

Series of military expeditions to the Middle East in the name of Christianity

Taino

noble ones

Colonization

Establishment of distant settlements controlled by parent country

Colombian exchange

Transfer of living things between Americas, Europe, and Africa

Treaty of torsedillas

Split western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

Savanna

Region of dry grassland

Hernando Cortes

Led army into American mainland to claim more land for Spain

Conquistadors

Spanish explorers (conquerors) lured in for gold

New Spain

Colony including Spanish-controlled north isthmus of Panama

Mestizo

Mixed Spanish and Native American

Encomienda

System where Natives farmed, mined, or ranched for Spanish landlords

Juan Ponce de Leon

Explorer who saw a tree covered beach and named it La Florida

New Mexico

Spanish northern holdings governed by Pedro de Peralta

Popé

Native American Pueblo religious leader