Chapter 2- When Worlds Collide
877645124 | Feudalism | A set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. | |
877645125 | Reconqista | A period of approximately 781 years in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, from the first Islamic invasion in 711 to the fall of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, in 1492. | |
877645126 | Christopher Columbus | An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led the European awareness of the North American continents. | |
877645127 | Bartolome de Las Casas | A 16th century spanish historian, social reformer, and Domincan friar. He was one of the first European settlers in the Americas and he advocated before King Charles V on behalf of the rights for the natives in 1515. | |
877645128 | Giovanni Caboto | An Italian navigator and explorer whose discovery of parts of North America in 1497 was the first European encounter with the North American mainland since the 11th century. | |
877645129 | Protestant Reformation | The schism within Western Christianity that was sparked by the posting of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. | |
877645130 | Spanish Armada | The Spanish fleet that sailed against England in 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sedonia. | |
877645131 | Renaissance | A cultural movement that spanned from the 14th to the 17th century. It began in Italy and later spread to the rest of Europe. | |
877645132 | Encomienda | A legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor. The system was abolished in 1720 | |
877645133 | Vassco Balboa | Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean. (1475-1519) | |
877645134 | Ponce de Leon | A Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition to Florida in 1513. | |
877645135 | Giovanni de Verrazano | He is renowned as the first European since the Norse expeditions to North America around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay in 1524. | |
877645136 | Predestination | The doctrine that all events have been willed by God. | |
877645137 | John White | An English artist, and an early pioneer of English efforts to settle the New World. He was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville to North Carolina in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition. | |
877645138 | Portuguese Exploration | Between 1415 and 1578, Portugal explored the Atlantic Ocean, discovering several Atlantic archipelagos. | |
877645139 | Tenochititian | Founded in 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexican Empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521. | |
877645140 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | |
877645141 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Signed on June 7, 1492 it divided the newly discovered lands between Portugal and Spain. | |
877645142 | Jacques Cartier | French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557) | |
877645143 | Protestants | A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers. |