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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

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