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6000534597Prince HenryPortugal's prince who led supported the exploration0
6000543890Vasco da GamaPortuguese explorer who travel around the Cape fo Good Hope and reach India1
6000553504Christopher ColumbusLed his voyage Maryweather and explore America2
6000559037Treaty of TordesillasPope establish alone of demarcation on a longitudinal line that runs through Atlantic, Portugal occupies the east and Spain occupies the west3
6000572715Amerigo VespucciExplores south America on several trips around 1500, America was named after him.4
6000577903Ponce de LeonIn 1513, he explores Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth5
6000582258Vasco de BalboaIn 1513, he explores much of Central America for Spain, laid sight on Pacific Ocean6
6000587634Ferdinand MagellanHis voyage traveled around the World, but he was killed by the Philippians7
6000595645Giovanni da VerrazzanoIn 1524, he explores the North American coast for France8
6000598082Sir Francis DrakeIn 1578, he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe9
6000602829John CabotIn 1597, he explores the coast of North America for England10
6000606868Henry HudsonBeginning in 1609, he sailed for the Dutch, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia. He found the Hudson River and claimed it for the Dutch11
6000616094The Sternpost RudderInvented by China during Han dynasty, it allows for better navigation and control of ships and increasing size12
6000628467Lateen SailsInvented by the Muslims, allows ships to sail in any direction regardless of wind13
6000638160The AstrolabeSailors used this portable navigation device, developed in the Hellenist world, by measuring the distance of the sun and the stars above the horizon to help determine latitude14
6000651750The Magnetic CompassChinese invented it to determine direction without stay in sight of land (指南针)15
6010507451Three Masted CaravelsThe Large ships that could hold large goods in long journey16
6010516857Hernan CortesHe landed in Mexico in 1519 with 600 men, and he interacted with the Aztecs, and soon began to conquer Tenochtitlan17
6010535050Francisco PizarroHe set 200 men to search the Inca empire, and the Incans died because of diseases18
6010542224peninsularesPeople born in Spain19
6010543855CreolesEuropean born in colony (George Washington)20
6010549003mestizosmixed of White and Indians21
6010554426mulattosmixed of white and Africans22
6010557917viceroyappointed governors of the five vice-royalties of Spain: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and Rio de La Plata23
6010708315Las Casasprotect the Indians24
6010791317Sepulvedaenslave the Indians25
6010797648PotosiThe biggest silver mine in Peru26
6010800431MercurySpanish became the first country to use mercury to mine silver27
6010815723Malacca and BataviaThe Dutch colony in Asia, spice islands28
6010827051DeshimaThe only Japanese port that is open to the Europeans (only for the Dutch)29
6010832936Barbados and JamaicaThe British colony in Caribbean, the wealth in Barbados is more than three American States30
6010883051encomiendaa system of forced labor, slavery31
6010889461Middle PassagesAfricans was forced to go through the Middle Passages on ship, at least 13 million Africans were taken32
6010913492Columbia exchangeplants, animals, ideas, religions, diseases and all kinds of things. (most importantly, sugar and silver)33
6010924650Joint-Stock companyan organization created to pool the resources of many merchants, thereby distributing the costs and risks of colonization and reducing the danger for individual investors34
6010945618Muscovy CompanyMonopolized the trade route to Russia by England35
6010953569Dutch East Indian CompanyControls the route to the Spice Islands in Asia36
6010956195mercantilisma country actively sought to trade, but try to import more than export.37

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