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Christopher Columbus |
an Italian explorer who discovered America |
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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 |
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 |
soldier-adventurers |
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Hernando Cortes |
a conquistador who sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers |
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Moctezuma |
the Aztec leader who met with Cortez and tried to get him to leave by offering him gold |
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plantation |
large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
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encomiendas |
land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans |
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Bartolome de Casas |
the priest who traveled through New Spain working for reform |
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missions |
religious settlements |
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peninsular |
Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain |
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mercantillism |
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 who made four voyages in the search of the northwest passage |
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Samuel de Champlain |
made the first of his 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 traders who lived among the Indians |
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Jacques Marquette |
french missionary who founded two missions along the Great Lakes |
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alliance |
is an agreement between parties that benefits them both |