History October
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- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Prince of Portugal who established a school of navigation and directed explorations.
- Cartography
- The art or technique of making maps or charts.
- Vasco de Gama
- Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. The first European to sail to India.
- Alphonso de Albuquerque
- Considered the founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Italian navigator and explorer of the South American coast. America was named in his honor.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- A Portuguese navigator of the sixteenth century. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over discovered lands.
- Hernan Cortez
- Spanish explorer and conquistador who conquered Aztec Mexico for Spain.
- Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru (1531–1533).
- Encomiendas
- Trusteeship system used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- Audiencias
- A judicial district that functioned as an appeals court.
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Spanish missionary and historian.
- Dutch East India Company
- Chartered by the Netherlands to expand trade between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia.
- New Netherlands
- A Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers.
- Mughal Empire
- Muslim empire in India, 1526–1857.
- Sir Robert Clive
- British soldier and statesman who helped secure Britain's interests in India.
- Battle of Plassey
- The victory in 1757 by the British that established British supremacy over India.
- Ming Dynasty
- A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.
- Qianlong
- Chinese emperor (1735–1796) of the Qing dynasty.
- Tokugawa
- Family that held the shogunate and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
- Mercantillism
- Attempt to increase a nation’s wealth by imposing government regulation of commercial interests.
- Mestizos
- Person of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
- Mulattoes
- A person of mixed white and Black ancestry.
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
- Mexican nun and poet known for her love lyrics.
- Potosi
- A city of south-central Bolivia southwest of Sucre.
- Gerardus Mercator
- Flemish cartographer who developed the Mercator projection (1568).