| A | B |
|---|
| raw matierials | something found in nature that is used to make products people use: Europeans wanted these from America |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | while sailing around the west coast of Africa, he was blown off course and accidentaly landed on the coast of present-day Brazil |
| Brazil | Portugal's largest colony in South America, named for a tree that grows there |
| plantations | in Brazil, these large farms were created to grow sugar cane |
| viceroy | provinces in the Spanish empire of America were governed by this person |
| mission | Spanish settlements in America, where indiginous people were brought to learn new skills; the Catholic Church was at the center |
| Bartolome de las Casas | caused the king of Spain to make laws that protected indigenous people in America |
| Spanish Armada | a very large group of Spanish ships organized to invade England |
| East India Company | a trading business established by England to maintain trading posts in Asia and Africa |
| Jamestown | first permanent English coliony in America, located on the coast of present-day Virginia |
| Plymouth | 2nd permanent English colony in America, settled by the Pilgrims, located in present-day Massachusets |
| Quebec | first permanent French settlement in America, located in present-day Canada |
| New Netherland | first permanent Dutch settlement in America, located in and around present-day New York City |
| obstacles to European settlers | clearing ladn, building shelter, disease, grwoing food, bad weather |
| disease | the reason why indigenous people could not work on plantations in Brazil |
| immune | Africans were ___ to disease in America |
| trading posts | the Portuguese establshed these to maintain trade in Asia |
| missionaries | they came from Spain to convert the indigenous people to the Catholic Church |
| England | a European country that DID NOT make claims in South America |
| Portugal | a European country that DID NOT make a claim in North America |
| King Phillip II | made plans to attack England to make it Catholic and because of sea dog attacks on Spanish ships |
| Elizabeth I | secretly encouraged sea dog pirate attacks against Spain and stopped the Spanish Armada in the English Channel |
| Louisiana | claimed by the French and named for the French king at the time |
| guns, cannons | a big advantage Europeans had in times of war |
