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eXPLORATION

• Searching or traveling for discovery or informational purposes.

Columbian exchange

• The transfer of plants, animals, disease, culture, ideas, technology, and more between, the Old World, the Americas, and West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries..

SettleMent

• A colony or small community of people.

expanison

• The act of expanding territorially or economically.

route

• A way for travel or movement.

Colonies

• a country or area under political control of another country.

trade

• The act of buying and selling goods and servivces.

culture

• the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular group of people.

hemisphere

• Halves of the earth divided by the equator.

Henry hudson

• an English navigator and explorer during the 17th century who searched for a northeast passage or a similar northwest passage.
• neither were found
• attempts contributed to the geography of north america.

age of discovery

• modern period from the beginning of the 15 century to the middle of the 17th century.
• Europeans began exploring the world by sea searching for new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge

spanish armada

• A DAY 130 SHIPS SAILED FROM CORRUNA IN MAY 1588 TO ESCORT AN ARMY TO INVADE ENGLAND.

Amerigo Vespucc

• a Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence
• DISCOVERED A NEW CONTINENT
• CALLED SOUTH AMERICA THE NEW WORLD.

Juan Ponce de Leon

• A Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading THE first European expedition to Florida and BEING the first governor of Puerto Rico.

Ferdinand Magellan

• Portuguese explorer who organiZed the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522.
• discovered the channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between the mainland tip of South America and Tierra del Fuego island,

Christopher Columbus

• an Italian explorer and navigator who WENT ON four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

Treaty of Tordesillas

• AN agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th century voyagers.

EncomieNda System

• a labor system instituted by the Spanish crown in the American colonies. In this system.
• a Spanish encomendero was granted a number of native laborers who paID tributes to him in exchange for his protection.

Printing Press

• A machine which text and images are transferred to paper or other media with ink.
• first become mechanized in europe

Hernan Cortes

• a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile.

Fancisco Pizarro

• soldier and conquistador known for conquering the Incas and executing their leader, Atahuapla.

Hernando de Soto

• an explorer and conquistador who helped conquer many lands in parts of Central and South America, including those of the Inca Empire.
• discovered the mississippi river in 1541

Giovanni de Verrazaro

• a Florentine explorer of North America and the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524.

Jacques Cartier

• the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River and his explorations on river and the Atlantic coast of Canada on three expeditions from 1534 to 1542,
• laid the basis for later French claims to North America.

Samuel de Champlain

• a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean and founded Quebec and New France

John Cabot

• Italian navigator and explorer who discovered newfoundland and he was instrumental in the development of the transatlantic trade between England and the Americas.
• 1497 voyage to the coast of North America is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the 11th century.

John Hawkins

• a English naval commander and administrator who was also a privateer and an early promoter of English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.

Francis Drake

• an English sea captain, privateer, naval officer, slaver, and explorer known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition from 1577 to 1580.

Sir Walter Raleigh

• an English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.
• he sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island which is now north carolina