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- Bartolomeu Dias
- an early Portugese explorer know for his statment about his Motives.
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- a 1994 agreement between portugal and spain declaring that newly dicoverd lands to the wast .
- conquistadors
- a Spanish soilder,explorers and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Am,ericas in the 16th century
- Louis xvi
- Bourdon King During the French Revolution
- Christopher Colunbus
- A Genoese sea captain who in 1492 sailed across the Atlantic in search of an alternate trad route to Asia but instead reaches an island in the Caribben.
- Metacom
- aalso Known as King Philp in 1675 the Native American ruler led attack on colonial village throught Massachusetts known as King Philp War
- Prince Henry
- called the Navigtor' for his role in promoting Portuguese explorations.
- Colony
- a land controlled by another nation
- encomienda
- a grantor land made by Spain to a settlerin North America,
- Great fear
- A wave of sentence panic that spread through French countryside after the storming of Bastille.
- New France
- the base of France colonial emipre in North America, Quebec ,founded in 1608 by exploror Samuel de Champlain
- Line of Demarcation
- an imaginary longtuide or north and south divide line, drawn by Pope Alexandriavi in 1493 to divide the new lands.
- ''God,glory,gold''
- primary motives for explortion- Desire to spread Christianity, find new sources for wealth , dicover new lands and expand borders.
- Check and Balance Federal system
- measures desined to prevent any one of the branches dominating each other
- Marie Anotoinette
- queen and wife of Louis xvi member of the roal family of Austria
- Tokugawa Shogumate
- a dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867
- Columbian Exchange
- the Gobal transfer of plants, animal and diseases
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital where Hernando Cortes and his fellow conquistadors convinced the Aztec emperor.
- plediscite
- a direct vote in which a country poople have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
- Tennis Court Oath
- A national Assembly of the Thrid estate
- Ming Dynasty
- a chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368-1644, the doninant powerin Asia.
- Francisco Pizarro
- a Spanish conquistador who in 1532 conquered the Incan Empire
- Manchus
- a people native to Manchuria,who ruled China during the Qing Dynasty from 1405-1433.
- Compass
- an instrument for determing dirctions, by means of a freely rotati ng mangnetized needle that incates magnetic north
- coup d etat
- a sudden sezire of political power in a nation
- Astrolabe
- a brass circle with carefully adjus ted ring marked off in degress, by which a sea captian could calculate the ship's latitude (how far north or south of the equator)
- Dutch East India Company
- a company fouded by the Dutch in early 17th cantury to eastblish and direct trade throught Asia.
- William and Mary
- King and Queenof France after the Glorios REVOLUTION
- Bill of rights
- The frist Ten amendment to the U.s Constitution
- Puritans
- a group of people who sought freedom from religons persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachutts Bay in early 1600s
- old regime
- system of government in which power is divided between central authority
- Hernando Cortes
- a Spaniard who in 1519 ianded on the shores of Mexico
- French and Indian war
- conflict between Britian and France for control of territory in North America lasting from 1754 to 1763
- Delclartion of Inpendence
- written by Thomas Jeffferson to reflected of Jhon Lock and the Enlightenment
- Esate
- Social class system in France
- Pilgrims
- a group of poeple who in 1620 founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religons persection in England.
- Napolean Bonaperte
- a French General who overthrew the Directory, proclamied himselef emperor
- Caravel
- a sturdier than earlier ships triangular sails adopted from the Arabs helped vesel to sail effectively against the wind.
- Round Head
- Puritan suport of Parliment fighting against the English civil war
- James Town
- a Virgina colony settled by the English in 1607 following a decree from king James to found a colony in North America
- mestizo
- a personof mixed with spanish and Native American
- Montezuma
- Aztec emperor invaded by Herando Cortes and his forces
- Qingg Dynasty
- Chian's last dynasty, which ruled from 1644 to 1912 and expanded China;s borders include Taiwan, chinese central Asia,Mongolia,and Tibet.
- Diamyo
- a japanese fedal lord who commanded a private army of samurai
- New Nethrland
- discoverd by Henry Hudson an Englishman in the service of the Netherlands
- Zheng He
- a Chinese Muslim admiral, he led all seven voyages of exploration under the Mng Dynasty from 1405-1433.