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21 Cards in this Set
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Who is credited for discovering america |
Christopher Columbus |
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What spanish colonist explored what is now panama in 1510 |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
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what does it mean to travel around |
circumnavigate |
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which portuguse explorer set out to find an atlantic-pacific passage |
Ferninand Magellan |
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what is a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water |
a strait |
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what is a soldier-adventurrer |
conquistadors |
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in 1519 which conquitador sailed from cuba to mexico with more than 500 soldiers |
Hernando Cortes |
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who was the aztec leader |
Moctezuma |
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what are large farms worked by laborers who live on property |
plantations |
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what are land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans |
encomiendas |
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what were religous settlements |
missions |
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who traveled through New Spain working for reform and was a priest |
Bartolome de Las Casas |
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what were spanish colonists who had to be born in spain |
peninsulares |
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what was the system where colonists made the home country wealthy and powerful |
mercantilism |
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a sea route from the atlantic to the pacific that passed through or around north america is called what |
northwest passage |
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who was the italian explorer columbus interested to decide that a more northern route to asia would be shorter and easier |
john cabot |
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who was the english explorer who made four voyages in search of the northwest passage |
henry hudson |
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whos activites influnced the french in the region for 150 years |
samuel de champlain |
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french term for runners in the woods |
coureurs de bois |
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which french missionary found two missions along the great lakes in present day michigan |
Jacques Marquett |
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what is an agreement that benifits both of the parties |
an alliance |
