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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
The man who discovered america |
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Vasco da Balboa |
a Spanish colonist explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
set out to find a Atlantic pacific passage |
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strait |
a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water |
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circumnavigate |
or travel around |
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conquistador |
set out to discover the and conquer the world unknown to them |
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Hernando Cortes |
sailed from Cuba to mexico with more than 500 soldiers |
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Moctezuma |
met with cortes and tried to get him to leave for gold |
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plantation |
large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
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encomienda |
land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from native Americans |
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Bartolome de casas |
traveled through new spain working for reform |
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mission |
religious settlements |
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peninsular |
Spanish colonist who were born in Spain |
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mercantilism |
held the colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful |
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northwest passage |
a sea route from the Atlantic to the pacific that passed through or around NA |
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Henry Hudson |
made four voyages in search for the northwest passage |
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Samuel de Champlain |
made the first 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the ST. Lawrence River |
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courier de bois |
the french term for runner in the woods |
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jacques marquette |
had founded two missions along the great lakes in present day Michigan |
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alliance |
an agreement between parties that benefits them both |
