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Christopher columbus |
Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa.
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Vasco da Balboa |
a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513
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Ferdinand Magellan |
a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522,
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Strait |
a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
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Circumnavigate |
sail all the way around
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Conquistador |
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
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Hernando Cortes |
a Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
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Moctezuma |
was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan.
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Plantation |
a large piece of land (or water) usually in a tropical or semitropical area where one crop is specifically planted for widespread commercial sale and usually tended by resident laborers.
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encomienda |
a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
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Mission |
a ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate its faith or carry on humanitarian work.
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Peninsular
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an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland
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Mercantilism |
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
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Northwest Passage |
a sea route connecting the northern Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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Henry Hudson |
an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle.
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Samuel de Champlain |
a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608.
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Courier de bois |
an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.
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Jacques Marquette |
a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan.
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Alliance |
An alliance is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests
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Bartolome de Casas |
He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians".
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