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Columbus sails the ocean blue |
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Divided politically into Haitiand the Dominican Republic;
discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, who named it
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A former
federation of the British islands in the Caribbean,comprising
Barbados, jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, and the Winward
and Leeward island colonies. |
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First to Circumnavigate the globe, but dies in the West Indies. His crew were really the ones to finish the journey. |
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English navigator and pirate, the first Englishman to sail
around the world (1577-80). He commanded a fleet against the Spanish Armada
(1588) and contributed greatly to its defeat. |
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Italian navigator in spanish service:traditionally considered the discoverer of America 1492. |
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In 1508, after only two voyages to the Americas, the position of chief of navigation of Spain was created for Vespucci, with the responsibility of planning navigation for voyages to the Indies. |
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Prince Henry the Navigator |
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French navigator and explorer of Canada:discovered the
St. Lawrence River. |
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Coast of Africa that was ideal for navigators to land on. |
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A small spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the
Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts. |
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An instrument for determining directions, as by means of
a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north. |
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An instrument for finding direction, usually having a
magnetized needle which points to magnetic north
swinging freely on a pivot. |
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Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 Castillian leagues west of the Cape Verde. |
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A Portuguese overseas territory in S China, in the delta of the
Zhu Jiang River and including two small adjacent islands. |
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The place was an early focus for Arab traders, who
first settled there in the 7th century. Vasco da Gama, the
Portuguese discoverer of the sea route to India, reached
Kozhikode in 1498.The Portuguese built a fortified trading post there in 1511, but it was abandoned in 1525. |
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Spanish conquerors of mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
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Spanish conquistador: defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.
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The leader of the Aztec empire until the Spanish invasion in 1519. Unable to fight off the invasion, he was criticized by his followers and died from wounds inflicted by his own people. |
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Spanish conqueror of Peru. He landed in Peru (1532), murdered the Inca King Atahualpa(1533), and founded Lima as the new capital of Peru (1535). He was murdered
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The longest mountain range in the world, they are in the west, and they run north to south. They are located in South America. |
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A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. |
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A Native American people who ruled Mexico and neighboring areas
before the Spaniards conquered the region in the sixteenth
century. Starting in the twelfth century, they built up an
advanced civilization and empire. |
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Plumed serpent god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, 1578, from
Nahuatl quetzalli "tailfeather" + coatl "snake." |
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The capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed
by the Spaniards; now the site of mexico city |
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Small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake
foragricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for
the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of
Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique was-and is still-most widely used. |
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A major focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through theTerminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. |
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A member of a major pre-Columbian civilization of theYucatán Peninsula that
reached its peak in the 9th centurya.d. and produced
magnificent ceremonial cities withpyramids, a
sophisticated mathematical and calendarsystem,
hieroglyphic writing, and fine sculpture, painting,and ceramics.
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An acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the
variolavirus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that
often leavespermanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by
vaccination programs. |
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City in Peru, former capital of the Inca Empire, from Quechua
(Inca), lit. "navel," in a figurative meaning "center"
(of the world,as the navel is the center of the body). |
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The site of an ancient Incan and pre-Incan city, about 7000 ft.(2130 m) above sea level in the
Andes, in S central Peru. |
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A device consisting of a cord with knotted strings of various
colors attached, used by the ancient Peruvians for recording
events, keeping accounts, etc. |
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The last Inca emperor of Peru (1525--33), who wasput to death by the Spanish under Pizarro. |
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Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second
trip in1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for
the legendary Fountain of Youth. |
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The mainland of Spanish America, esp the N coast of
South America from the Isthmus of Panama to the mouth of
the Orinoco River, Venezuela. |
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A dramatically widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture and human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Old World and New World). It was one of the most significant events concerning ecology, agriculture, and culturein all of human history. |
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Trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. |
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The system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier
or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together
with its Indian inhabitants. |
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A Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World, as opposed to a person of full Spanish descent born in the Americas (known as criollos). The word "peninsular" makes reference to the Iberian Peninsula where Spain is located. |
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A person born in the West Indies or spanish America but of
European, usually Spanish, ancestry. |
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The offspring of one white parent and one black parent:
notin technical use. |
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A person of racially mixed ancestry, esp., in Latin America, of
mixed American Indian and European, usually spanish or
Portuguese, ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native
and foreign ancestry. |
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The part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of
Africaand the West Indies: the longest part of the journey
formerly made by slave ships.
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