Lesson 2 European Exploration

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• colony

• conquistadors

• coureurs de bois

• caravel

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• conquistadors

• colony

• coureurs de bois

• missionary

Crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit

• cash crops

• slavery

• mercantilism

• coureurs de bois

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

• missionary

• conquistador

• monarch

• coureurs de bois

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

• slavery

• conquistador

• monarch

• coureurs de bois

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• mercantilism

• conquistador

• cash crops

• coureurs de bois

A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations

• caravel

• conquistador

• coureurs de bois

• missionary

the three main reasons for the European age of exploration

• God, Gold, Glory

• Cash crops, mercantilism, monopoly

• colony, missionary, gold

• God, cash crops, caravel

(runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America.

• coureurs de bois

• missionary

• conquistadors

• caravel

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• Columbian Exchange

• colony

• merchantilism

• Flea Market