| A | B |
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| cartographer | someone who makes maps |
| Line of Demarcation | the line drawn by the Pope to divide the new world between Spain and Portugal |
| Henry the Navigator | Portugese Prince who founded the first school of navigation |
| Vasco de Gama | first sailer to reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who reached the new world in 1492 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first captain to circumnavigate the globe |
| conquistador | Spanish conquerer |
| triangular trade | ships that sailed in a triangular course |
| Henry Hudson | claimed the Hudson River Valley for the Netherlands |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | discovered Brazil |
| Hernan Cortes | conquestador that conquered the Aztecs |
| Atahualpa | last Inca ruler |
| Hernando De Soto | explored the Mississippi River Valley |
| Francisco Vasques de Coronado | explored Mexico and the southwest United States |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | explored the North American coast |
| Jacques Cartier | claimed Eastern Canada for France |
| Samuel de Champlain | founder of Quebec |
| John Cabot | claimed Newfoundland and New England for England |
| mercantilism | economic theory that a nations power depended on it's wealth |
| balance of trade | how much a country exports verses how much it imports |
