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26 Cards in this Set
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Prince of Portugal who established a school of navigation and directed explorations.
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Cartography
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The art or technique of making maps or charts.
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Vasco de Gama
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Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. The first European to sail to India.
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Alphonso de Albuquerque
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Considered the founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Italian navigator and explorer of the South American coast. America was named in his honor.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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A Portuguese navigator of the sixteenth century. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over discovered lands.
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Hernan Cortez
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Spanish explorer and conquistador who conquered Aztec Mexico for Spain.
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru (1531–1533).
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Encomiendas
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Trusteeship system used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Audiencias
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A judicial district that functioned as an appeals court.
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Spanish missionary and historian.
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Dutch East India Company
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Chartered by the Netherlands to expand trade between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia.
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New Netherlands
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A Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers.
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Mughal Empire
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Muslim empire in India, 1526–1857.
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Sir Robert Clive
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British soldier and statesman who helped secure Britain's interests in India.
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Battle of Plassey
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The victory in 1757 by the British that established British supremacy over India.
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Ming Dynasty
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A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.
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Qianlong
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Chinese emperor (1735–1796) of the Qing dynasty.
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Tokugawa
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Family that held the shogunate and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
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Mercantillism
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Attempt to increase a nation’s wealth by imposing government regulation of commercial interests.
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Mestizos
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Person of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
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Mulattoes
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A person of mixed white and Black ancestry.
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Mexican nun and poet known for her love lyrics.
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Potosi
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A city of south-central Bolivia southwest of Sucre.
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Gerardus Mercator
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Flemish cartographer who developed the Mercator projection (1568).
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