Unit 2: European Exploration Vocab

boundary between

Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New

World

• Line of Demarcation

• Equator Line
• Greenwich Meridian
• Prime Meridian

to travel all the way around the

globe

• Global Travel

• Round Trip

• Circumnavigate

• Long Way Around

(1494) a treaty between

Spain and Portugal that moved the Line of

Demarcation

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Demarcation

• Treaty of Spain

the transfer of plants,

animals, and diseases between the Americas

and Europe, Asia, and Africa

• Columbian Exchange
• Silk Road
• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Great Migration

a Spanish soldier and explorer

who led military expeditions in the Americas

and captured land for Spain

• Explorer

• Christopher Columbus
• Conquistador

• Vasco da Gama

a system in Spanish

America that gave settlers the right to tax local

Indians or to demand their labor in exchange

for protecting them and converting them to

Christianity

• Encomienda System
• Feudal System
• Caste System
• Manorial System

a large farm that usually specialized

in growing one kind of crop for profit

• Plantation
• Greenhouse
• Garden
• Orchard

a religious movement

begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to

reform the Catholic Church

• Protestant Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Industrial Revolution

reformers who protested certain

practices of the Catholic Church

• Catholic

• Lutheran

• Muslim

• Protestant

a large Spanish fleet defeated

by England in 1588

• The Spanish Armada
• The Spanish Inquisition
• The Spanish Conquistadors
• The Spanish Civil War