_The Earth And Its Peoples_ Terms: Chapter 17, The Maritime Revolution, To 1550 Ce

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Arawak

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Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus.

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Atahualpa

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1500s
Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. HE was executed by the Spanish.

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Caravel

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A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.

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Christopher Columbus

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1400s-1500s
Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of the AMericas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.

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Conquistadors

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Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru.

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Herman Cortes

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1400s-1500s
Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in the 1500s for Spain.

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Bartolomeu Dias

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1400s-1500
Portuguese explorer who in the 1400s led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.

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Vasco da Gama

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1400s-1500s
Portuguese explorer. In 1400s he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

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Gold Coast (Africa)

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Region of the Atlantic coast of West AFrica occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.

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Henry the Navigator

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1300s-1400s
Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.

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Hundred Years War

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1300s-1400s
Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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1400s-1500s
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of the 1500s that was the first to sail around the world.

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Monteczuma II

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1400s-1500s
Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the SPanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.

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Francisco Pizarro

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1400s-1500s
Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in the 1500s.

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Zheng He

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1300s-1400s
An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.