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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
Who Discovered America |
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa? |
A Spanish Colonist, explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
Set out to find an Atlantic Passage |
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Strait? |
A narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water |
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Circumnavigate |
Travel Around |
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Conquistadors |
Solider-Adventurers |
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Hernando Cortes |
sailed from Cuba to Mexico |
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Moctezuma |
An Aztec Leader |
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Plantations |
Large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
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Encomiendas |
These were land grants that included the right of demand labor taxes from Native Americans |
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Bartolome de Las Casas |
Traveled through New Spain working for reform |
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Missions? |
Religious settlements |
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Peninsular? |
Spanish Colonists who had been born in Spain |
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Mercantilism? |
Colonies that existed to make home country wealthy 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 to find the northwest passage |
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Samuel de Champlian |
Set out on eleven voyages to map out the lands along the St. Lawrence River |
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Coureurs de bois |
French term for "runners of the woods" |
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Jacques Marquette |
Founded two missions along the Great Lakes |
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Alliance |
An Agreement between parties that benefits them both |
