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Social Studies vocab Chapter 3
S.s chap 3
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Geography
8th Grade
09/30/2008

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Amerigo Vespucci
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a florentine merchant
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty that divided newly discoveredlands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain
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Conquistador
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Spanish adventurers or conquers
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Fransisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec EMpire
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missionary
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a person who comes to anothercountry to show religion
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mission
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Small settlements that include a church, a fort, and houses
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Coulumbian Exchange
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The movement of living things between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Explorer for France who became the fisrt European to visit present-day North Carolina
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Spanish explorer who claimed Florida for Spain while seearching for the fountain of youth
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Lucas Vasquez de allyon
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Spanish explorer wjo unsuccesfull led the only spanish attempt to colonize North Carolina
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Hernando de soto
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Spainish explorer who traveled through much of the present dat day southeastearn United States
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Jean Ribaut
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A french navigator
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Pedro Menendez
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An Admiral
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looted
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to steal by force
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Pedro de Coronas
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the leader of the expedition to the cheasapeake bay
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immunity
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The bodys ability to resist a particular disease
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Juan Pardo
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A expedition captain
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