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| 239822012 | Amerigo Vespuci | Florentine sailor who accompanied several sea explorations to the new world, helping to map the eastern coastline of South America for the first time. Because of prominence in publishing accounts of the "newly discovered" continent, The Americas were named after him. | |
| 239822013 | Bartholomew Diaz | Even before Vasco da Gama this Portuguese sailor explored the coast of Africa rounding the Cape of Good Hope but returned in 1488 in fear of mutiny | |
| 239822014 | Encomienda | a grant from the Spanish crown giving conquistadors and colonizers the right to the labor of a set number of Native American people in order to carry out farming, mining, etc | |
| 239822015 | Repartimiento | a requirement of time/labor due to Spanish lords from a native person of the Americas | |
| 239822016 | Joint-stock exchange | a commercial organization financed by selling shares to investors, dividing the risks of commerce and sharing profits through dividends | |
| 239822017 | Debt peonage | servitude required as a way of paying back indebtedness-often as a result of wages not being sufficient to cover basic living expenses | |
| 239822018 | Mercantilism | economic policy encouraging governments to invest in infrastructures that help exporters and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the country | |
| 239822019 | Treaty of Todesillas | with the help of the pope this 1494 agreement divided the land claims of the New World between Spain and Portugal, giving Portugal rights to what became Brazil and the Spaniards everything west of that | |
| 239822020 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince, inspired by curiosity searched for Christian allies against Muslims and both converts and wealth from the Asian spice trade prompted the first exploration of the African coast to round the Cape of Good Hope | |
| 239822021 | Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish conquistador in Cuba had a change of heart as he saw the sufferings of the native populations exploited for mining and pearl diving . He became a Dominican monk and wrote a scathing attack on Spanish cruelties called The Tears of the Indians and helped end the encomienda system | |
| 239822022 | Fransisco Pizarro | helped both by reading Cortes' accounts and by the Inca's losses to smallpox and civil unrest : this Spanish conquistador captured the Incan Empire of Peru | |
| 239822023 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and then the surrounding area's peoples | |
| 239822024 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese naval commander who was the first European to get from Europe to India and and Indonesia by going around the southern tip of Africa: his efforts led to the beginnings of the African slave trade and destruction of Swahili prosperity and Indian Ocean Trade | |
| 239822025 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer whose ships were the first to cross the Atlantic find a water route across the tip of South America into the Pacific Ocean and back to Spain: was killed after angering people in the Philippines |
