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| Astrolabe | a piece of technology that allowed sailors to chart the stars |
| Charter | written permission from a country to sail for them |
| The 3 G's | Gold, God, Glory- reasons for Europeans sailing in the 1500's |
| Leif Erikson | Viking who sailed to present day Canada in the year 1000AD |
| Vasco Nunez De Balboa | known for being the first to spot the Pacific by sailing through the Atlantic Ocean |
| Vasco De Gama | Sailed for Portugal and was the first to make it around Africa to India |
| Ferdinand Magellan | First person to circumnavigate the world |
| circumnavigate | to go around the world |
| Ethnocentrism | The idea that your race/ethnicity is superior or better than another (For ex. Conquistadors over Natives) |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | treaty between Spain and Portugal that decided Portugal would get lands to the east, and Spain to the west |
| Columbian Exchange | the exchange of plants, animals, foods, diseases over the next couple of centuries as a result of Columbus's arrival |
| Hernan Cortes | Conquistador responsible for taking over the Aztec |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador responsible for taking over the Inca |
| Bartolome De la Casas | Spanish priest who advocated for the rights of Natives in the New World |
| Middle Passage | nickname for the voyage slaves endured to the new world |
| Slavery | a result of the death of natives and the need for workers in the new world |
| Protestant Reformation | a movement to bring about other forms of Christianity led by Martin Luther |
| Spanish Armada | a mini war fought at sea between England and Spain- took Spain out of the running for empires in the Americas |
| English, Dutch, French | Three main European settlement areas in North America following the Spanish Armada |
| Disease | The #1 killer of Native Americans in the new world |
| Caravel | a new type of boat that was smaller and cut down on travel time |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Explorer who was the first to know he was in a new world, America is named for him |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | set up schools for explorers and financed sea trips |
| circumnavigate | means to travel around the world |
| Juan Ponce De Leon | looking for the Fountain of Youth, he found Florida for the Spaniah |
| Northwest Passage | it was believed to be a passageway of rivers that connected the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | settled land claim disputes between Spain and Portugal, Spain gets west, Portugal gets east |
