6000534597 | Prince Henry | Portugal's prince who led supported the exploration | 0 | |
6000543890 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer who travel around the Cape fo Good Hope and reach India | 1 | |
6000553504 | Christopher Columbus | Led his voyage Maryweather and explore America | 2 | |
6000559037 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Pope establish alone of demarcation on a longitudinal line that runs through Atlantic, Portugal occupies the east and Spain occupies the west | 3 | |
6000572715 | Amerigo Vespucci | Explores south America on several trips around 1500, America was named after him. | 4 | |
6000577903 | Ponce de Leon | In 1513, he explores Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth | 5 | |
6000582258 | Vasco de Balboa | In 1513, he explores much of Central America for Spain, laid sight on Pacific Ocean | 6 | |
6000587634 | Ferdinand Magellan | His voyage traveled around the World, but he was killed by the Philippians | 7 | |
6000595645 | Giovanni da Verrazzano | In 1524, he explores the North American coast for France | 8 | |
6000598082 | Sir Francis Drake | In 1578, he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe | 9 | |
6000602829 | John Cabot | In 1597, he explores the coast of North America for England | 10 | |
6000606868 | Henry Hudson | Beginning in 1609, he sailed for the Dutch, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia. He found the Hudson River and claimed it for the Dutch | 11 | |
6000616094 | The Sternpost Rudder | Invented by China during Han dynasty, it allows for better navigation and control of ships and increasing size | ![]() | 12 |
6000628467 | Lateen Sails | Invented by the Muslims, allows ships to sail in any direction regardless of wind | ![]() | 13 |
6000638160 | The Astrolabe | Sailors 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 latitude | ![]() | 14 |
6000651750 | The Magnetic Compass | Chinese invented it to determine direction without stay in sight of land (指南针) | ![]() | 15 |
6010507451 | Three Masted Caravels | The Large ships that could hold large goods in long journey | ![]() | 16 |
6010516857 | Hernan Cortes | He landed in Mexico in 1519 with 600 men, and he interacted with the Aztecs, and soon began to conquer Tenochtitlan | 17 | |
6010535050 | Francisco Pizarro | He set 200 men to search the Inca empire, and the Incans died because of diseases | 18 | |
6010542224 | peninsulares | People born in Spain | 19 | |
6010543855 | Creoles | European born in colony (George Washington) | 20 | |
6010549003 | mestizos | mixed of White and Indians | 21 | |
6010554426 | mulattos | mixed of white and Africans | 22 | |
6010557917 | viceroy | appointed governors of the five vice-royalties of Spain: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and Rio de La Plata | 23 | |
6010708315 | Las Casas | protect the Indians | 24 | |
6010791317 | Sepulveda | enslave the Indians | 25 | |
6010797648 | Potosi | The biggest silver mine in Peru | 26 | |
6010800431 | Mercury | Spanish became the first country to use mercury to mine silver | 27 | |
6010815723 | Malacca and Batavia | The Dutch colony in Asia, spice islands | 28 | |
6010827051 | Deshima | The only Japanese port that is open to the Europeans (only for the Dutch) | 29 | |
6010832936 | Barbados and Jamaica | The British colony in Caribbean, the wealth in Barbados is more than three American States | 30 | |
6010883051 | encomienda | a system of forced labor, slavery | 31 | |
6010889461 | Middle Passages | Africans was forced to go through the Middle Passages on ship, at least 13 million Africans were taken | 32 | |
6010913492 | Columbia exchange | plants, animals, ideas, religions, diseases and all kinds of things. (most importantly, sugar and silver) | 33 | |
6010924650 | Joint-Stock company | an organization created to pool the resources of many merchants, thereby distributing the costs and risks of colonization and reducing the danger for individual investors | ![]() | 34 |
6010945618 | Muscovy Company | Monopolized the trade route to Russia by England | 35 | |
6010953569 | Dutch East Indian Company | Controls the route to the Spice Islands in Asia | 36 | |
6010956195 | mercantilism | a country actively sought to trade, but try to import more than export. | 37 |
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