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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
Voyager who found the West Indies |
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Vasco de Balboa |
A Spanish colonist who explored the Carribean coast of Panama |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
A Portuguese explorer who sailed down the South American coast |
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Strait |
A narrow passage that connects two bodies of water |
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Circumnavigate |
To travel around the entire Earth |
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Conquistador |
Soldier-adventurers |
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Hernando Cortes |
A conquistador that sailed from Cuba to Mexico and marched into the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan |
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Moctezuma |
The Aztec leader who was taking hostage by Cortes |
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Plantation |
Large farms that were worked by laborers |
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Encomlenda |
Land grants that demanded labor or taxes from Native Americans |
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Bartolome de Casas |
A priest that traveled through New Spain working for reform |
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Mission |
Religious settlements |
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Peninsular |
Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain |
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Mercantilism |
A system that held the colonies that existed to make home country wealthy and powerful |
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Northwest Passage |
Sea route that passed through or around North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
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Henry Hudson |
An English explorer that made four voyages to find the Northwest Passage |
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Samuel de Champlain |
A Frenchmen who made the first 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the St. Lawrence River for France |
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Courier de bois |
Term for "runners of the woods," which were independent traders who lived amongst the Indians |
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Jacques Marquette |
A French missionary who founded two missions along the Great Lakes |
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Alliance |
An agreement between parties that benefits both of them |
