Twenty Explorers: Age of Exploration & VOCAB

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Explorer who made 4 voyages (1492-1502), discovered America, and called natives Indians.

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Christopher Columbus (Spain)

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ASTROLABE?

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Device to measure the angle of the sun and stars above the horizon (determines latitude).

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A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place while maintaining ties to their homeland. The term originates from the Latin 'colonia', meaning 'settled land, farm'.

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A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place while maintaining ties to their homeland.

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CARTOGRAPHER

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a mapmaker

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Ferdinand Magellan led the 1st expedition to sail around the world.

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Sailed completely around the world.

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A Conquistador is

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A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.

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What is an ECOMIENDA?

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A Spanish system allowing colonists to demand labor from Native Americans (Spanish Plantations) or land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers.

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Mercantilism is an economic policy aimed at increasing national wealth and power by acquiring gold and silver and exporting more than importing.

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an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

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A mestizo is

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a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

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The Middle Passage was a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to North America and the West Indies.

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a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies