Vocab Quiz Review Flashcards
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Probably the best known black in New France. He set up a trading post on the site of present-day Chicago
Jean Baptiste do sable
Cities of northern Mexico where vast gold was supposedly to be found
Seven cities of gold
Off the coast of Southeast Asia. They were important in the 15th and 16th centuries for spices such as nutmeg, cloves and pepper
Spice islands
He was known as Estevanic. Served as an advisor to Hernando Cortes and also to explorer Father Marcos de Niza
Little Steven
Owners of large grants of land received from the Dutch government in colonial times
Patroon
A Paris banker, who (in 1720) brought black and white laborers to work in the mines of New France
Phillipe Renault
A system by which the Dutch government gave away large grants of land in the North
Patroon system
Region north of Mexico, believed by Spanish explorers to contain vast treasures
Cibola
A formal request to someone in authority for a privilege or a right
Petition
Ruler of the Russian empire
Tsar
