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Bartholomew Diaz
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(1487-1488) Portuguese, first European to reach the southern tip of Africa.
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Conquistadores
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Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the new World.
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Encomienda
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Indians were required to work a certain number of days for a land owner, but had their own land to work as well.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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(1480?-1521) Portuguese navigator. While trying to find a western route to Asia, he was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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Giovanni de Verrazano
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(1485?-1528?) Italian explorer of the Atlantic coast of North America.
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John Cabot
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Italian-born navigator explored the coast of New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Gave England a claim in North America.
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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Monarchs who united Spain; responsible for the reconquista.
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Northwest Passage
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A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Sought by navigators since the 16th century.
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Pedro Cabral
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Claimed Brazil for Portugal
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.
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Sir Francis Drake
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English sea captain, robbed Spanish treasure ships; 'singed the king beard'; involved in the armada.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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(1552-1618) English courtier, navigator, colonizer, and writer. A favorite of Elizabeth I, he introduced tobacco and the potato to Europe. Convicted of treason by James I, he was released for another expedition to Guiana and executed after its failure.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.
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Vasco da Gama
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Discovered new ocean route from Portugal for India around Africa's tip.
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Hernando Cortes
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Conquistador, Conquer Aztecs
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Francisco Pizarro
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Conquistador, Conquer Incas
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Florentine explorer, disovered that New World was not Asia. Continent was names after him.
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Christopher Columbus
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"Discovered" New World; Goal was to discover Western trade route and spread Christianity.
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Columbian Exchange
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Exchange of goods, people, ideas and diseases from Western to Eastern Hemispheres
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Henry the Navigator
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Portuguese Prince; Scholar; Founded School for Navigation, patron of exploration; never went on a voyage
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Michel de Mantaigne
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French author that influenced authors for year. Developed essay as a literary genre. Challenged ideas that natives of Americans were inferior barbarians. Inaugurated "an era of doubt " of European cultural superiority.
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Mulattoes
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Term for those of African and European (white) heritage.
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Nunez de Balboa
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Spanish explorer; crossed Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean; beheaded by Govenor of Panama who was jealous of him.
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Reconquista
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Christians, mostly Spanish, force Muslims off the Iberian Pensinsula
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Triangle of Trade
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Trade route from Europe (finished goods), to Africa (slaves), to the Americas (raw materials).
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William Shakespeare
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English author; began to cross racial boundaries as in Othello; plays contained ambivalent attitudes toward complex non-European characters.
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