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Mr. Mac U.S. History chapter 2
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09/14/2010

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Bartholomew Dias
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Saw the cape of good hope.
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Christopher Columbus
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Landed on Hispanola on October 12,1492
set out from spain on August 3,1492
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Ferdinand Magellan
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First to circumnavigate and see the pacific.
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Northwest Passage
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Doesn't exist!!!! get over it Champlain.
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Pizzaro
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Conquered Incans(Atahualpa)
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Seven cities of Cibola
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Do not Exist! Get over it Coronado.
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Bartolome Las Casas
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Fought for Native American's rights!
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Martin Luther
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Started Protestant Reformation.
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Alvar Bunez Cabeza de Vaca
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Sailed to Florida in 1528
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Panfilo de Nunez
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Led an expedition that killed nearly all the sailors.
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St. Augustine Fort
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Established in Florida in1565
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Hernando de Soto
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Saw the Mississippi River in 1541
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Coronado
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Searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola
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Bartolome las Casas
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Pleaded for rights for the natives
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John Calvin
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A French religious thinker who also broke away from the Catholic Church
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King Henry III
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Had six wives and broke away from the Catholic and created the Anglican denomination.
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Columbian Exchange
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The trade of disease, items, plants, and ideas between the Old World and the New World
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John Cabot
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Claimed America for England
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Sent by France in 1524
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Jacques Cartier
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Founded Montreal in 1535
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Henry Hudson
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Englishman hired by the Dutch to look for the Northwest passage. He discovered the Hudson bay and river but was set adrift in the bay after a mutiny
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Samuel de Champlain
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Set up Quebec in 1608
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Coureur de bois
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"Runners of the Woods" French trappers and fur traders
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Leif Eriksson
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leader of the Vikings
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Crusades
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Wars to take back the Holy Land
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Kublai Khan
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Chinese emporer
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Caravel
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3 masted ship
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Mansa Musa
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Greatest Mali King, traveled to Mecca
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Askiya Muhammed
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Brought the Songhai Empire to its height
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Prince Henry
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Set up the Portuguese sailing school
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King John II of Portugal
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Launched expeditions to search for a path to India
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Pedro Alvarez Cabral
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Aimed for India, but landed on Brazil
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Ptolemy
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Ancient Greek atronomer
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King Ferdinand Queen Isabella
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Rulers of Spain
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Pope Alexander VI
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Drew the Line of Demarcation
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Mapped South America's Coastline
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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First to se the Pacific Ocean
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Hernan Cortese
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Killed Montezuma and conquered the Aztecs
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Kateri Tekakwtitha
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Mohawk Woman who became a christian.
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Elizabeth I
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Firmly establishes England as a protestant nation
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Pope Clement VII
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Refused to enull Henry VIII
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Jacques Cartier
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Founded Montreal
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Half Moon
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Hudson's ship
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