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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
"He opened the door to European settlement of the Americas---and all the devastation, innovation, and reinvention that came with it." |
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Vasco de Balboa |
a Spanish colonist, who explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama. |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
a Portuguese explorer who set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage. |
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strait |
A narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water. |
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circumnavigate |
To travel around. |
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conquistador |
Solder-adventures. |
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Hernando Cortes |
A conquistador that sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers. |
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Moctezuma |
The Aztec leader who tried to get Cortes to leave by paying him with 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 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 rom the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America. |
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Henry Hudson |
An English explorer who made four voyages in search of the northwest passage. |
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Samuel de Champlain |
Made the first of 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the St. Lawrence River. |
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Courier de Bois |
The french term for "runners of the woods," were independent traderrs who lived among the Indians. |
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Jacques Marquette |
a French missionary who had founded two missions along the Great Lakes. |
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alliance |
Is an agreement between parties that benefits them both. |
