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| Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese noble who established a school for navigation |
| Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer who reached Spice Islands by a sea route |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Sailing for Spain, he was the first to circumnavigate the globe |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs |
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for Spain and is credited with the European discovery of the New World |
| Conquistador | term give to the Spanish conquerers of the Americas |
| Amerigo Vespucci | first European explorer to realize that the "new world" was in fact separate from Asia |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador who conquered the Inca in Peru |
| Privateer | a legal pirate who would steal the cargo of spanish ships |
| Middle Passage | the long difficult journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas |
| Francis Drake | English explorer who circumnavigated the globe |
| Columbian exchange | exchange of products and technologies from one hemisphere to another that resulted from the discovery of the new world |
| Bartholomew Dias | Portuguese Sailor who was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope in S. Africa |
