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- gravity
- the force that pulls objects towards earth and that draws planets into orbits around the sun
- prince henry
- portugeese prince who directed the search for a sea route to the gold mines of western asia also designed a fast steerable shipknown as a caravel
- convert
- to adopt or cause someone to adopt a new religion
- sugarcane
- a tall grass with a thick woody stem containg al liquid that is a souce of sugar
- new spain
- spanish colony in north america including mexico central america the sw us and many other carribean islands from 1500's to 1800's
- conict
- a person who has been found guilty by the government of commiting a crime and recieves a sentance of punishment
- hernando cortes
- spanish conquistador who defeated aztec in 1951
- atahualpa
- the last inca emperor captured and killed by pizzaro
- peru
- colonial islands held by spain in south america from 1500's to 1800's present day country in western south america
- telescope
- an optical instrument for making distant objects seem close such as planets and stars
- dias
- portugeese ship captian whose woyage around the southern tip of africa in 1487 lead to the opening of a sea route between europe and asia
- james cook
- a navigator and ship captain who landed abd explored and claimed land in australia for england
- santo domingo
- spanish colony established on hispaniola in 1496 capital of dominacan repucblic
- olaudah
- enslaved afric writer in 1789 he wrote and autobiography describing his life in slavery
- scientific method
- a way of studying things through questioning and testing
- west indies
- an archpealgo stretching from florida to venezuala seperating carribean sea from atlantic ocean
- line of demarcation
- an imaginary linedrawn across north and south america in 1494 to divide claims of spain and portugal
- carribean sea
- sea bounded on N AND E by west indies and by central and south america on W AND S
- hispaniola
- a carribean island settled by spaniards in 1493 and present day island that is divided in to the dominacan republic and haiti
- plantation
- a large farming estate where mainly single crops are grown until the middle 1800's slaved often worked on plantations
- strait
- a narrow channel or body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water
- lima
- capital of peru founded by pizzaro in 1535
- mexico city
- the capital and largest city of mexico, formaly tenachtilan it became the capital of new spain after the spanish conquered aztec in 1500's
- triangular trade
- from the 1500's to the mid 1800's the triangular trade shaped trade routes between the americas england and africa which involved buying and selling africans and guns sugarand iron goods
- hacienda
- a large agricultural estate owned by spaniards or the church in spains american colonies
- conquistadors
- a spanish conquerrer who came to the americas to search for gold land and glory
- strait of megellan
- a narrow water way at the southern tip of south america linking the atlantic and pacific oceans
- caravel
- a sailing ship developed in portugal in the 1400's that had greater directional control than earlier ships and could sail greater distances more safely
- new south wales
- english colony founded on the east coast of australia in 1788 currently a state of australia
- galilei
- italian astronomer, mathmatician, and physsist, and his telescopes prove the sun is the center of the universe
- pedro alvarez colural
- portugeese navigator who landed on the coast of brazil in 1500 and claimed it for portugal
- cuzco
- a city in southern peru that is the capital of the inca empire from 1200's to 1500's
- columbus
- italian explorer who in the service of spain arrived in the americas in 1492
- maquarie
- governeor of the english colony new south wales in australia from 1810 - 1821 supported the rights of the emancipees in new south wales
- emancipee
- a person who has been freed or emancipated from a sentence of punishment given to him or her by the government
- heliocentric
- based on copernicuses idead that earth and other planets revolve around the sun
- geocentric
- based on the idea that earth is the center of the universe and that the sun, stars and planets revolve around earth
- elizabeth veale
- early colonist of the english colony new south wales in austrailia who helped establish the production of wool as an important australian industry
- magellan
- portugeese explorer in the service of spain set out to find a route to asia by sailing around the southern tip of south america
- credibility
- believability
- missionary
- a person who teaches his or her religion to people with different beleifs
- pizzaro
- spanish conquistador who in 1532 defeated the inca emperor atahualpa
- isaac newton
- english scientist who studied gravity
- aborigine
- a person belonging to or descending from the group of people who first inhabited australia
- mactezuma
- aztec emperor who defeated and killed by the spanish conquistador cortes in 1520
- middle passage
- the difficult journey made by enslaved africans acrross atlantic to west indies where sold