Fast & Curious US History Chapter 2

Astrolabe

• Go all the way around the globe

• A constellation
• tool that helps sailors navigate by the position of the stars

• Ships with triangular sails, that allowed them to sail against the wind

Caravels

• Tool that helps sailors navigate by the position of the stars

• Documents granting the right to organize settlements in an area

• Ships with triangular sails, that allowed them to sail against the wind

• Royal governors

Line of Demarcation

• A boundary marking the limits of a country
• A line drawn by the Pope dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
• A line separating two political or geographical areas
• A line that marks the end of a race

Treaty of Tordesillas

• This moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles west

• A peace treaty ending the Hundred Years' War
• A trade agreement between England and France
• A military alliance between the Ottoman Empire and Persia

Circumnavigate

• Soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas

• Go all the way around the globe

• A path that connected scarred communities in New Spain (former Aztec territory)

• To travel to the center of the Earth

Colombian Exchange

• A trade agreement between Colombia and the United States
• A path that connected scarred communities in New Spain (former Aztec territory)

• The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World

• A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Conquistadors

• Spanish explorers who conquered territories
• Go all the way around the globe

• Royal governors

• Spanish estates in Central and South America

Encomienda System

• Gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans and put them to work, in exchange settlers were supposed to protect them

• The forced removal of Africans from their homeland to serve as slaves in the Americas

• Documents granting the right to organize settlements in an area

• The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas.

Plantation

• Gave settlers the right to tax slaves and put them to work, in exchange settlers were supposed to protect them

• A huge fleet of warships meant to end English plans

• Large estate farmed by many workers and grew one type of crop

• Spanish estates in Central and South America

Protestant Reformation

• A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others to reform the Catholic Church

• A war between England and France
• An action or decision that later serves as an example

• The idea that political power lies with the people