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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
discovered america |
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Vasco de Balboa |
a Spanish colonist |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
Portuguese explorer |
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strait |
a narrow passage way that connects two large bodies of water |
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circumnavigate |
travel around |
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conquistador |
soldier-adventurers |
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Hernando Cortes |
a conquistador that sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers in 1519 |
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Moctezuma |
Aztec leader |
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plantation |
large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
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encomienda |
These were 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 colonists who had been born in Spain |
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mercantilism |
held that 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 North America |
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Henry Hudson |
English explorer that mad four voyages in search of a northwest passage |
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Samuel de Champlain |
made the first of eleven voyages to explore and map the lands along St. Lawrence river in 1603 |
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Courier de bois |
the French term for "runners in the woods," were independent traders who lived among the Indians |
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Jacques Marquette |
French missionary who had founded two missions along the Great Lakes in 1670 |
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alliance |
an agreement between parties that benefit them both |
