Age Of Discovery

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Christopher Columbus

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an Italian explorer who discovered America

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Vasco de Balboa

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a Spanish colonist who explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Portuguese explorer who set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage

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strait

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a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water

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circumnavigate

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to travel around

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conquistador

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soldier-adventurers

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Hernando Cortes

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a conquistador who sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers

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Moctezuma

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the Aztec leader who met with Cortez and tried to get him to leave by offering him gold

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plantation

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large farms worked by laborers who live on the property

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encomiendas

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land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

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Bartolome de Casas

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the priest who traveled through New Spain working for reform

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missions

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religious settlements

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peninsular

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Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain

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mercantillism

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held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful

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northwest passage

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a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America

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Henry Hudson

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English explorer who made four voyages in the search of the northwest passage

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Samuel de Champlain

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made the first of his 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the St. Lawrence River

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Courier de bois

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the french term for "runners of the woods," were independent traders who lived among the Indians

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Jacques Marquette

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french missionary who founded two missions along the Great Lakes

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alliance

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is an agreement between parties that benefits them both