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Bering Land Bridge

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land bridge used to migrate to North America

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Christopher Columbus

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was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean

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Hernando Cortes

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was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland

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Francisco Pizarro

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was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire. Pizarro González was born in Trujillo, Spain, the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel, and Francisca González, a woman of poor means.

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Encomienda System

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was a dependency relation system, that started in Spain during the Roman Empire, where the stronger people protected the weakest in exchange for a service.

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The Lost Colony (Roanoke)

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established on Roanoke Island, in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement.

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Jamestown (1607)

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was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg.

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Plymouth (1620)

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was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.

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Columbian Exchange

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refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.

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Commercial Revolution

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was a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the late 13th century until the early 18th century. It was succeeded in the mid-18th century by the Industrial Revolution.

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Joint-Stock Companies

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an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.

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Mercantilism

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading

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Atlantic Slave Trade

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took place across the AtlanticOcean from the 15th through to the 19th centuries.

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Middle Passage

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was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Triangular Trade

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is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come.

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Gold, God, Glory

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Was a spanish motivation saying

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13 Colonies

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were British colonies on the east coast of North America which had been founded between 1607 and 1732, stretching from New England to the northern border of the Floridas

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New England Colonies

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of British America included the colonies of Connecticut,Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts, and Province ofNew Hampshire. They were part of the ThirteenColonies, along with the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies.

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Middle Colonies

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comprised the middleregion of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire in North America.

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Southern Colonies

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during the 17th and 18th centuries and consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of North Carolina, the Province of South Carolina, and the Province of Georgia.

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Colonial Government

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Each of the thirteen colonies had a charter, or written agreement between the colony and the king of England or Parliament. Charters of royal colonies provided for direct rule by the king. A colonial legislature was elected by property holding males.

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Colonial Religion

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English settlers who founded Plymouth for religious freedom