Age of Exploration
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- percent of american natives killed by small pox brought by europeans
- 80%
- peninsulares
- pure spanish settlers who colonized the new world
- Diaz
- first to sail around the southern tip of Africa. Called it cape of storms but then renamed it cape of good hope
- mesitizos
- a person who is native american and spanish
- Amerigo Vespucci
- retraces Columbus' route and discovers the Columbus found a new world
- Cabral
- Portuguese who discovered Brazil
- mulatto
- person who is african american and Spanish
- conquistador
- conqueror
- Marquette and Joliet
- frenchmen who explored the upper Mississippi River Valley
- De Soto
- Spanish who discovered the Mississippi River
- Reasons for Exploration
- trade with Asia, curiosity about the east,wealth and ambiton of european states,scientific progress,spread christianity
- Magellan
- sails around tip of south africa. first to circumnavigate the world. proved that earth is round, circumnavigation,could get to asia by sailing west, and rough distance of world circumfrence.
- line of demarkation
- line drawn by Pope in which Spain gets to keep whatever tehy find to the west of the line and Portugal gets to keep whatever they find to the east of the line
- Atahualpa
- Incan ruler
- Vasco Da Gama
- first to establish a water route to asia
- Hernando Cortez
- explors mexico and conqures the aztecs
- Ponce de Leon
- spanish who discovered florida
- Balboa
- crossed Isthmus of Panama to discover the Pacific Ocean
- Cabot
- English who discovered Labrador and the northeast coast of North America
- Verrazano
- French who explored the atlantic coast of north america and first sailed into New York Harbor
- Pizzaro
- conquistador who conqured he Incas of Peru and captured Atahualpa(the incan ruler),took random for him, then split his throat.
- Cartier
- French who discovered the St.Lawrence river
- Hudson
- Pollish who entered the New York Harbor and sailed up the Hudson River
- treaty of torsedillas
- moves the line of demarkation so that portugal gets brazil
- Montezuma II
- leader of aztecs in 1519
- Christopher Columbus
- tries to reach asia in 1492 by sailing west but lands in bahamas. makes 4 journeys to the americas