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16 Cards in this Set
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JOHN CABOT
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Italian navigator who gave England a claim in N. America
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PEDRO CABRAL
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claimed Brazil for Portugal
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CONQUISTADORES
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Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the new World
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BARTHOLOMEW DIAZ
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Portuguese; first European to reach southern tip of Africa
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DE GAMA
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sailed for Portugal &found trade routes in India; Cape of Good Hope
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FERDINAND &ISABELLA
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united Spain; responsible for reconquista [christians reconqured Iberian peninsula]; hostile to religious faiths other than Christianity
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PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR
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Portuguese; established observatory &school of navigation
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MAGELLAN
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Portuguese; circumnavigated the globel killed in Philippines whilie trying to find route in Asia
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE
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water route from Atlantic to Pacific through N. Canada &along coast of Alaska
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RALEIGH
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favored by Elizabeth I; introduced tobacco &potato to Europe; convicted of treason by James I
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TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
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set Line of Demarcation which was boundary used to define Spanish &Port. possessions in America
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REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
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issue- Calvinism; Philip II sends troops; wanted independence
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CONCORDAT OF BOLOGNA
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(1516); establishes Catholic as state religion; French adopted Calvinism [Huguenots]
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HERNANDO CORTES
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conquered Aztec Empire; Mexico
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FRANCISCO PIZARRO
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Inca Empire; Peru
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Aug. 2, 1492 to find eastern route; failed @finding spice markets in Asia; believed Christianity should be carried to places/people where it didnt existh
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