| A | B |
|---|
| Christopher Columbus | discovered an island in the Caribbean, Hispaniola, claimed it for Spain |
| Francisco Pizzaro | conquistador; attacked the Inca empire of Peru |
| John Smith | 1st governor of Jamestown |
| Hernan Cortes | conquistador; attacked the Aztecs of Mexico |
| Inca | empire was located in present-day Peru; built earthquake resistant buildings |
| Aztec | empire was located in present-day Mexico City, Mexico; believed in human sacrific |
| trappers | adventurers who capture and kill animals, such as beavers, for their fur |
| missionaries | people who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion |
| colony | new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land |
| presidios | walled forts that soldiers lived in while protecting claim in the Americas of European nations |
| conquistadors | Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the natives of Mexico and Peru |
| French relations with natives | Successfully traded with the natives, especially furs |
| British relations with natives | Used the natives as slave labor and extorted their land |
| Spanish relations with natives | Used the natives for slave labor, but were more sucessful with missionaries |
| The British claiming Jamestown became their argument later for... | Having a claim over all of the land in the United States |
| Ralph Lane | leader of Roanoke who left for England with Drake |
