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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
First person to claim America |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
Portuguese explorer |
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Strait |
Narrow strip of water |
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Circumnavigate |
to travel all the way around the Earth |
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conquistador |
conqueror, especially one of the sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru |
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Hernando Cortes |
A conquistador that sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers |
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Moctezuma |
An Aztec Leader |
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plantation |
Large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
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encomienda |
Land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans |
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Bartolome de Casas |
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 |
help that colonies existed to make the home country weathy and powerful |
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northwest passage |
a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America |
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Henry Hudson |
Made four voyages in search of the Northwest passage |
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Samuel de Champlain |
made the first 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the St. Lawrence river |
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Courier de bios |
The french term for "runners of the woods" |
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Jacques Marquette |
founded two |
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alliance |
an agreement between parties that benifits them both |
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Vasco de Balboa |
A Spanish Colonist that explored the Carribean coast |
