Explorers, Social Studies, Mr. Allen
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Portuguese the Navigator sponsors explorers at his school | Prince Henry 1430-1460 |
| Portuguese first to round the Cape of Good Hope of southern Africa | Bartolomeu Dias 1488 |
| Italian sailing under the flag of Spain, makes westward voyages and discovers land, thinking it's the Indies. Actually, he in the Caribbean. | Christopher Columbus 1492, 1493, 1498, 1502 |
| Portuguese explorer voyages east around Africa to India and back to Portugal | Vasco da Gama 1497-1498 |
| Italian explorer correctly identifies that the land across the Atlantic is a "New World". "America" is named after him by a map maker. | Amerigo Vespucci 1504 |
| Spanish conquistador conquers the Aztecs in Mexico | Hernan Cortes 1519-1521 |
| Portuguese explorer circumnavigates the world and is the first to prove the world is a globe. | Ferdinand Magellan 1519-1522 |
| The Treaty of ??? divides the world between Portugal and Spain -- defines settlements and languages in the Americas | Tordesillas 1494 |
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