| A | B |
|---|
| merchant | a person who buys and sells goods |
| claim | to take possession of land for someone else |
| explore | to search for new things or new places |
| mission | a settlement where people of one religion teach their faith to others |
| missionary | a person who teaches his or her religion to people of other faiths |
| viceroy | leader of a viceroyalty |
| viceroyalty | one of Spain's large colonies in the Americas |
| colony | a settlement far from the home country |
| colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
| slave | a person who is owned by another person |
| Marco Polo | merchant who traveled to Asia across land |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese-started school for sailors-sponsored search for water route around Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | sailed around Africa and reached India |
| Columbus | Italian - but sailed for Spain |
| Queen Isabella | Queen of Spain who sponsored Columbus's voyages |
| San Salvador | island in the Carribean where Columbus landed |
| Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria | Columbus's 3 ships |
| Indians | name Columbus gave to Native Americans(Arawaks) |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America is named in honor of him |
| Carribean Sea | area where Columbus explored |
| Gold, jewels & spices | what Columbus was looking for |
| Cortes | Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico |
| Gold & silver | what Spanish explorers were looking for in the Americas |
| Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in Peru |
| Montezuma | Aztec King |
| Atahualpa | Inca King |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital (Mexico) |
| Magellan | First to circumnavigate the globe |
| circumnavigate | to go all around the world |
| Bartholomeu Dias | reached the most southern part of Africa |
