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Amerigo Vespucci
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the founder (the person who named) of America
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Capitalism
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economy based on the private ownership of property and the use of the compete for profits or gains in a market
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Cartography
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the science of making maps and globes
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Christopher Columbus
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first to find the new world
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Circumnavigate
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to sail completely around something
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Colonization
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the process of taking over territory, creating a government, and settling towns
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Columbian Exchange
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the exchange of people and ideas between the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere
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Ferdinand Magellan
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went through a strait and named it after himself
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Mercantilism
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the economi policy in which a nation controls its trade, agriculture, industry, and money to bring as much wealth as possible into the country
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Vasco da Gama
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first to reach the Indian Ocean by sea not by land
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