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| Explorer | a person who travels to unknown places to discover new things |
| Dutch West India Company | a company formed by several Dutch people in the early 1600s to set up trade with native americans |
| Northwest Passage | a water route that explorers hoped to discover throughout North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans |
| Slave | a person who is owned by another person |
| Trade | buying and selling of goods an services |
| Fort Orange | a fur trading post on the Hudson river, and the first Dutch settlement in New York. later renamed albany. |
| New Netherland | a colony found by the Dutch West India company in 1624, renamed New York by the english in 1664 |
| New Amsterdam | Dutch settlement and trading post, at the southern tip of manhattan island |
| Henry Hudson | an English explorer sailing for the netherlands, he travled up the river which is now named for him in 1609 |
| Samuel de Champlain | a French explorer who sailed to northern New York, naming lake Champlain after himself |
