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23 Cards in this Set
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Prince Henry |
the king of Portugal's son |
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Bartolomeu Dias |
him and his crew reached the tip of Africa |
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Vasco da Gama |
began exploring the east African coast |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
they agreed to honor the Line of Democration |
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Dutch East India Company |
was richer and more powerful than England's company |
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Christopher Columbus |
to make a daring voyage from Spain in 1492 |
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colonies |
lands that are controlled by another nation |
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Hernando Cortés |
a Spaniard that landed on the shores of Mexico |
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conquistadors |
Cortés and the many other Spanish explorers who followed him |
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Francisco Pizarro |
marched a small force into South America |
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Atahualpa |
the Incan ruler |
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encomienda |
Spanish forced Native Americans to work within a system |
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mestizo |
mixed Spanish and Native American population |
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New France |
Quebec, became the base of France's colonial empire in North America |
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Jamestown |
named the settlement in honor of there king |
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Pilgrams |
founded a second English colony, Plymouth , in Massachusetts |
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New Netherland |
the Dutch holdings in North America |
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Puritans |
also sought religious freedom from England's Anglican Church |
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French and Indian War |
Ohio Valley led to a war between the British and French on the North American continent |
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Metacom |
another name for King Philip(Native American ruler) |
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Atlantic slave trade |
the buying and selling of African for work in the Americas |
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triangular trade |
Africans transported to the Americas were part of a transatlantic trading network |
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middle passage |
the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America |
