Age of Exploration Vocab Review

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Portuguese explorer who first reached India and brought wealth to Portugal.

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Vasco da Gama

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Third son of King John I, first European to contact Africa, sponsored explorers, trained in navigation.

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Prince Henry

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Portuguese captain and explorer who first sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Treaty signed in 1494 dividing the non-European world between Spain and Portugal.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Trading company founded by the Dutch for Indian Ocean trade.

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Dutch East India Company

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Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire, founder of Lima

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for Spain

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Hernando Cortes

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Italian explorer funded by Spain; sailed west for Asia but found the West Indies, thinking they were the East Indies.

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Christopher Columbus

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Group of people in a new territory linked to a distant state.

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Colony

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Spanish soldier-explorer

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conquistador