age of exploration
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 henry the navigator | created the first school for the advancement of navigation |
| bartolomeu dias | first to sail around africa |
| vasco da gama | first to sail around africa to calcutta, india |
| Christopher Columbus | first to sail west to reach the east |
| Juan Ponce Leon | sailed from Puerto Rico and settled Florida |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | first to cross the Isthmus of Panama |
| Hernando Cortes | invaded and conquered mexico and the aztecs indians |
| Francisco Pizarro | invaded peru and conquered the Incas |
| Hernando de Soto | sailed from Cuba to Florida and explored the Mississippi River |
| Francisco Cornado | explored the southwest United States |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first to circumnavigate the world from portugal_working for spain |
| John Cabot | explored the coast of New Foundland, Nova Scotia, and Labrador |
| Giovanni de Verrazano | sailed the atlantic coast from North Carolina to New York from italy__working for france |
| Jacques Cartier | sailed the St. Lawrence River to present day Montreal, Canada FROM/WORKING FOR FRANCE |
| Sir Martin Frobisher | sailed the coast of Greenland |
| Henry Hudson | explored the hudson river up the present day Albany, NY from england working for : netherlands, england |
| treaty of tordesillas | the Set Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. |
| Pope Alexander VI | set the papal line of demarcations |
| spain | the east lands/americas |
| portugal | the west lands and Brazil |
| the northwest passage | the attemps to find a route around the top of the new world |
| amerigo vespuci | (from italy) works for spain&portugal mapmaker used his sketches and called lands amerigo's land= america |
| sir frances drake | from/working for england privateer,sea dog, and explorer |
| samuel de champlain | from/working for : france established quebec explored interior of canada |
| the columbian exchange | the diffusion of plants, animals, and goods between the old/new world |
| english | settled in north america/ america |
| french | settled in north america (canada, great lakes) |
| spanish | settles in mexico, south america |
| portugese | setttled on the border of south america (BRAZIL) |
| Dutch | settled in small part of eastern coast of south america |
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