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| 14825285364 | Admiral Zheng He | Chinese Explorer who voyaged 1405-1433 for 7 total voyages for the goals of Emperor Yongle. One of his voyages was known as the "Treasure Fleet," in which contained 317 whole ships. He brought back many treasures including Giraffes and books. The next Emperor decided to end exploration; thus, he was one of the last Chinese explorers. | 0 | |
| 14825285365 | Christopher Columbus | An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journies until the time of his death in 1503. | 1 | |
| 14825285366 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. | 2 | |
| 14825285367 | Columbian Exchange | The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyages in 1492. | 3 | |
| 14825285368 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. | 4 | |
| 14825285369 | Ecomienda System | System under which officers of the Spanish Conquistadors gained ownership of Indian Land | 5 | |
| 14825285370 | Repartimiento system | A system instituted by Spain in which residents of Indian villages remained legally free and entitled to wages, but were still required to perform a fixed amount of labor each year; replaced the encomienda system in 1550. | 6 | |
| 14825285371 | Pueblo Revolt | The Natives of (N/A) rebelled against the combination of brutality and Spanish attempts to eradicate their traditional religion. 2,000 (N/A) warriors attacked farms and missions, killed 400 colonists, and surrounded Santa Fe. The Spanish retreated form the colony. This was "the only wholesale expulsion of settlers in the history of North America) | 7 | |
| 14825285372 | Henry Hudson | An English explorer who explored for the Dutch. He claimed the Hudson River around present day New York and called it New Netherland. He also had the Hudson Bay named for him | 8 | |
| 14825285373 | Virginia Company | Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in England. | 9 | |
| 14825285374 | Roanoake Colony | The first attempted colony in the Americas (1584). it ultimately failed. | 10 | |
| 14825285375 | Enclosure Movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. | 11 | |
| 14825285376 | Indentured Servant | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years | 12 | |
| 14825285377 | John Smith | Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. | 13 | |
| 14825285378 | Headright System | The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land | 14 | |
| 14825285379 | House of Burgesses | Representative assembly established in the colony of Virginia | 15 | |
| 14825285380 | Powhatan | An Indian chieftain and father of Pocahontas who dominated the peoples in the James River area. All the tribes loosely under his control came to be called Powhatan's confederacy. The colonists innacurately called all of the Indians powhatans. | 16 | |
| 14825285381 | Pocahontas | A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powahatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him; about 1595-1617; Pocahontas' brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native relations. | 17 |
