to travel completely around Earth

the purchase of Manhattan

from a Huron-Iroquois word meaning “village or settlement”

English sailors licensed by the monarch to attack enemy ships

1) the French government would not allow Protestants to settle there. 2) They used the feudal system, meaning settlers could not own their own land.

Francis Drake

Countries had exclusive rights to trade with the goods from their own colonies. The more colonies a country had, the more wealth it would accrue.

a Spanish conqueror who sought gold and other riches in the Americas

South America was a huge landmass.

an economic policy that gives a country sole ownership of the trade occuring in its colonies

He allied with Native Americans who did not like the powerful Aztec rulers. He took advantage of Moctezuma’s belief in the return of the god Quetzalcoatl.

cities of gold

A missionary