| A | B |
|---|
| cartographers | mapmakers |
| Ptolemy | invented longitude and latitude |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | son of King John I of Portugal, never took a voyage |
| Henry's explorers | Azores, Madeira Islands, Cape Verde Islands |
| Cape of Good Hope | Bartholomeu Dias in 1488 found the Southern tip of Africa A.K.A. |
| Vasco da Gama | found way to India by going around South Africa |
| Christopher Columbus | accidentaly found "New World" which he thought was India all his life |
| Columbus's men | found land after midnight of the second day of the promise |
| Bahamas | Islands Columbus and his men found |
| Amerigo Vespucci | claimed that Columbus found new lands |
| America | name given to new lands in honor of Vespucci |
| line of demacration | imaginary line from North to South Pole made by pope to divide new lands between Spain and Potugal |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | moved line of demacration farther west to allow Portugese trade with Asia |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese solider that led ships through the Strait of Magellan |
| Strait of Magellan | narrow waterway through South Africa |
| South Sea | discovered and named 6 years earlier byBalboa |
| Pacific Ocean | new name given by Magellan to South Sea because water was so calm |
| Magellan death | caused by a skirmish with Phillipinos |
| circumnavigation | circling of the globe first done by Magellan's crew |
| Magellan expedition | proved Earth was round, oceans were connected |
| Portugal interest | trade rather than colonization |
| Pedro Cabral | won spice trade routes |
| Brazil | colonized by Portugal and only territory in S.America owned by Portugal |
| Conquistadors | conquerors |
| Hernan Cortes | conquered Aztecs |
| Montezuma II | Aztec ruler in Tenochtitlan |
| Francisco Pizzaro | Took over Incas |
| Atahualpa | captured by Pizzaro and even though ransom was met they still killed him |
| West Indies | islanda that Spain conquered along with N and S America |
| Spanish goals | aquired wealth by farming plantations, and convert Natives to Christianity |
| encomienda system | grnated right to use Native American labor |
| Africans | after Indians died of disease and bad conditons, these are now used as slaves |
| Henry Hudson | claimed lands along atlantic coast for Dutch |
| French profit | quick and easy using trade. no long term ways like farming |
| English profit | long and reliable ways like farming and raw materials |
