European Expansion
Terms
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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.