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Age of Exploration
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12th Grade
01/22/2011

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Term
1492
Definition
Columbus sails the ocean blue
Term
Hispaniola
Definition

Divided politically into Haitiand the Dominican Republic;

 discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, who named it

this

Term
1517
Definition
Cortes conquers Aztecs
Term
West Indies
Definition

A former

federation of the British islands in the Caribbean,comprising 

Barbados, jamaicaTrinidad, Tobago, and the Winward

 and Leeward island colonies.

Term
Magellan
Definition
First to Circumnavigate the globe, but dies in the West Indies. His crew were really the ones to finish the journey.
Term
Drake
Definition

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.

Term
Columbus
Definition
Italian navigator in spanish service:traditionally considered the discoverer of America 1492.
Term
Vespucci
Definition
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.
Term
Prince Henry the Navigator
Definition
Prince of Portugal.
Term
Cartier
Definition

French navigator and explorer of Canada:discovered the

 St. Lawrence River.

Term
Gold Coast
Definition
Coast of Africa that was ideal for navigators to land on.
Term
Caravel
Definition

small spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the

Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts.

Term
Compass
Definition

An instrument for determining directions, as by means of 

freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.

Term
Astrolabe
Definition

An instrument for finding direction, usually having 

magnetized needle which points to magnetic north 

swinging freely on a pivot.

Term
Treaty of Tordesillas
Definition
Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 Castillian leagues west of the Cape Verde.
Term
Macao
Definition

Portuguese overseas territory in S China, in the delta of the 

Zhu Jiang River and including two small adjacent islands.

Term
Calicut
Definition

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. 

Term
Conquistadors
Definition
Spanish conquerors of mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
Term
Cortes
Definition
Spanish conquistador: defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.
Term
Moctezuma II (Montezuma)
Definition
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.
Term
Pizarro
Definition

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 

by his own followers.

Term
Andes Mountains
Definition
The longest mountain range in the world, they are in the west, and they run north to south. They are located in South America.
Term
Incas
Definition
member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian  peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
Term
Aztecs
Definition

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.

Term
Quetzalcoatl
Definition

Plumed serpent god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, 1578, from 

Nahuatl quetzalli  "tailfeather" + coatl  "snake."

Term
Tenochtitlan
Definition

The capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed 

by the Spaniards; now the site of mexico city

Term
chinampa
Definition

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. 

Term
Chitzan Itza
Definition
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. 
Term
Maya
Definition

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.

Term
Small Pox
Definition

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.

Term
Cuzco
Definition

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).

Term
Machu Picchu
Definition

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.

Term
Quipu
Definition

device consisting of a cord with knotted strings of various 

colors attached, used by the ancient Peruvians for recording 

events, keeping accounts, etc.

Term
Atahualpa
Definition
The last Inca emperor of Peru (1525--33), who wasput to death by the Spanish under Pizarro.
Term
Ponce de Leon
Definition

Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second 

trip in1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for 

the legendary Fountain of Youth.

Term
Spanish Main
Definition

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.

Term
Columbian Exchange
Definition
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 ecologyagriculture, and culturein all of human history.
Term
Triangle Trade
Definition
 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. 
Term
Encomienda
Definition

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.

Term
Peninsulare
Definition
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.
Term
Creole
Definition

person born in the West Indies or spanish America but of 

European, usually Spanish, ancestry.

Term
Mulatto
Definition

The offspring of one white parent and one black parent: 

notin technical use.

Term
Mestizo
Definition

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.

Term
Middle Passage
Definition

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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