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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Colubus |
Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer
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Vasco de Balboa |
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistado
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Ferdinand Magellen |
Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
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Strait |
a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of wate
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Circumnavigate |
sail all the way around somthing |
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Conquistador |
a conquerer |
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hernanado Cortes |
Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
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Moctezuma |
the ninth ruler of Tenochtitlan |
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plantation |
an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
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encomienda |
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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Bartolome de casas |
Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar
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mission |
an important assignment |
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peninsular |
Spanish colonist born in spain |
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mercantillism |
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
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northwest passage |
a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Henry Hudson |
English sea explorer and navigator
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Samuel de champlain |
French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler
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Courier de bois |
a French or French-Indian trapper of North America, especially of Canada.
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jacques Marquette |
French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
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alliance |
a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.
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