WH2 Age of Exploration List

Mrs. Ballingall KFHS
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  1. colony
    a group of organisms of the same type living together
  2. conquistador
    a 16th-century Spanish conqueror of Peru and Mexico
  3. mestizo
    a Latin American with both European and indigenous heritage
  4. pilgrim
    someone who journeys in foreign lands
  5. puritan
    someone who adheres to strict religious principles
  6. French and Indian War
    a war in North America between France and Britain
  7. sextant
    an instrument for measuring angular distance
  8. compass
    navigational instrument for finding directions
  9. Bartholomeu Dias
    Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
  10. Vasco da Gamma
    Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)
  11. Amerigo Vespucci
    Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
    Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain
  13. Christopher Columbus
    Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
  14. Hernando Cortes
    Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
  15. Francisco Pizarro
    Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
  16. Jacques Cartier
    French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
  17. Samuel de Champlain
    French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
  18. Sir Francis Drake
    English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
  19. capitalism
    an economic system based on private ownership of assets
  20. joint-stock company
    a business collectively owned by those who bought shares
  21. mercantilism
    a system of increasing wealth through colonization and trade
Created on Sun Oct 14 11:51:21 EDT 2012

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