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Christopher Columbus |
Discovered America |
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Vasco (Nunez) de Balboa |
A Spanish colonist, explored the Carribean and the coast of Panama |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
A Portuguese explorer who in Sept. 1519 set out to find the 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 |
Spanish soldiers-adventurers set out to explore and conquer a world unknown to them |
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Hernando Cortez |
1519 conquistador sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers. |
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Moctezuma |
Aztec leader and tried to get rid of Cortez by giving him gold |
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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 |
A priest who traveled through New Spain looking working for reform |
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mission |
religious settlements ran by Catholic priests and friars |
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peninsular |
The people top of the social structure/Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain. |
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mercantilism |
The system that the colonies 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 the North Americas |
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Henry Hudson |
English Explorer that made four voyages in search of the northwest passage |
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Samuel de Chaplain |
1603 made the first 11 voyages to explore and map lands along the St. Lawrence River |
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Courier de bois |
(French term for runners of the woods) were independent traders who lived among the Indians |
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Jacques Marquette |
founded two French missions along the great lakes |
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alliance |
an arrangement between parties that benefits them both |