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European Expansion

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geocentric
Based on the idea that the Earth's the center of the universe and that the sun,stars, and planets revole around the Earth.
Ferdunand Magellan
Portguese explorer in services with Spain he set out to find a route to Asia by sailing around the southern tip of S. America
scintific method
A way of studying things through questioning and thorough testing.
hacienda
A large agricultural estate owned by Spaniards or the church in Spanish American colonies.
Christopher Colombus
Italian explorer in service with Spain who arrived in the Americas in 1492.
conquistador
A spanish conqueror who came to the Americas in seacrch of gold, land, and glory.
caravel
A sailing ship developed in Portagul in the 1400s that had greater directonial contol then earlier ships and could sail greater distances safer.
Galileo Galilei
Italian astronmer,mathematican, and physicist, his telescope proved that the sun is the center of our solar system.
Isaac Newton
English fscientist who dscovered gravity.
telescope
An optical instrument for making distance objects, such as planets and stars appear nearer and larger.
Line of Demarcation
An imaginary line drawn across N. and S. America in 1494 to divide the claims of Spain and Portugual.
gravity
The force that pulls objects towards Earth and that draws planets into orbits around the sun
heliocentric
Based on Copernicus's idea that the Earth and the other planets revole around the sun.
Bartholomeu Dias
Portguese ship captain whose voyage was around the southern tip of Africa in 1487 led to the opening of a sea route between Europe and Asia.
Pedro Alvarez Cabrel
Portuguese navigator who landed on Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugual.
Strait of Magellan
A narrow waterway at the southern tip of S. America
missionary
A person who teaches his or her religion to people with different beliefs.
Prince Henry
Portuguese prince whp direacted the search for a sea route to the gold mines of Western Africa. He also designed a fast steerable ships known as a caravel.
strait
a narrow channel or body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
convert
To adopt or cause some one to adopt a new religion.

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