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| 20672090 | Christopher Columbus | Genose Captian in service of king and queen of Castile and Aragon; succsesfully sailed to new world and retuned in 1492 | 0 | |
| 20672091 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese captain in spanish service; began the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519; died during voyage; allowed Spain to claim possession fo the Philippines | 1 | |
| 20672092 | East India Company | Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia; acted as virtually indepent goverenment in regions it claimed | 2 | |
| 20672093 | World Economy | Established by europeans in 16th century; based on control of seas, including Atlantic and Pacific; created international exchanges of food disease and products | 3 | |
| 20672094 | Columbian Exchange | Biological and ecological exchange that took place folling the Spanish establishment of colonies in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to New World | 4 | |
| 20672095 | Lepanto | Navel battle between the Spanish and the Ottoman Empire resulting in a Spanish victory in 1571 | 5 | |
| 20672096 | Core Nations | Nations, usally European, that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial servicessuch as shipping | 6 | |
| 20672099 | New France | French colonies in North America; extended from St Lawerence River along great lakes and down Mississippi River | 7 | |
| 20672101 | Treaty of Paris | Arranged in 1763 following Seven Years World; granted New France to England in exchange for French suger island in Caribbean | 8 | |
| 20672102 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with with Bantus | 9 | |
| 20672103 | Boers | Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony, in southern Africa | 10 | |
| 20672104 | Calcutta | Headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in Indian subcontinant;located on Ganges; captured in 1756 during early part of Seven Years War; later became administrtive center for all of Bengel | 11 | |
| 20672105 | Seven Years War | Fought in both Europe and overseas colonies between 1756 and 1763; resulted in Russian seizures of land from Austria, English seziures of colonies in India and North America | 12 | |
| 20672106 | Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India | 13 | |
| 20672107 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economics in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe | 14 | |
| 20672108 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Mesoamerica amd South America; particulary prevalent in areas colonized by Spain | 15 | |
| 20672109 | John Locke | English philosopher during 17th century; argued that people could learn everything through senses and reason; argued that power of government came from the people, not divine right of kings; offered possibility of revolution to overthrow tyrants | 16 | |
| 20693701 | Vasco de Balboa | a Spaniard, who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first known European to gaze westward upon the great ocean that separated America from China. | 17 | |
| 20693767 | Francisco Pizzaro | Led conquest of Inca Empire of Peru beginning in 1535; by 1540, most of Inca possessions fell to the Spanish | 18 | |
| 20693769 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean | 19 | |
| 20693770 | Dependent Economy | - | 20 | |
| 20768872 | Atlantic Colonies | British colonies in North America along atlantic coast | 21 | |
| 20768873 | William Shakespeare | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) | 22 |
