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11 Cards in this Set
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Bartolomé Días |
Portuguese navigator that doubled the Buena Esperanza Cape for first time. |
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Vasco de Gama |
First Portuguese explorer to reach India along the African coast |
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Factories |
Free-trade zone or transshipment point. |
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Fernando de Magallanes |
Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies |
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Juan Sebastián Elcano |
Spanish mariner who took part on the first voyage around the world completed in 1522 |
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Américo Vespucio |
Italian navigator who demostrated that Brazil and West Indies weren't Asia's Eastern outskirts. |
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Ultramarine Empire |
A countries territory outside its frontiers. |
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Andrés Vesalio |
Flemish anatomist, author of On the fabric of the human being |
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Miguel Servet |
A Spanish theologian, physician, Cartographer and Renaissance Humanist |
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Erasmus of Rotterdam |
Dutch Christian humanist considered as the greatest scholar of northern Renaissance |
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Mecenas |
The ones who had sufficient money to take under their protection a scientific or an artist. |
