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| 5772123861 | Vasco De Gama | Explorer who made it to India in 1497. | 0 | |
| 5772123863 | Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who after getting denied by Portugal, his expeditions were funded by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. First sailed to the New World in 1492, and traveled to the west indies, killed thousands of the native people. | 1 | |
| 5772123864 | Ferdinand Magellan | Searched for a passage to the Pacific Ocean, initiated the first circumnavigation of the world, but died on the voyage though his crew finished the trip. | 2 | |
| 5772123868 | Core Nations | Nations typically European that controlled trade all aspects of trade and enjoyed the profits. Ex. Spain made sugar from the west indies be brought back to Spain so they could monitor which nation would receive the sugar (368). | 3 | |
| 5772123869 | Mercantilism | Idea that there was finite wealth, and that sell/export=good, but import=bad, colonies=raw materials to export, and heavy state control (368). | 4 | |
| 5772123870 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Native American blood who were exposed to major work loads because of estate management systems. | 5 | |
| 5772123872 | Vasco De Balboa | Explorer who went across Panama, first Spaniard to begin a settlement in Mesoamerica that led to conquest the Aztec and Inca empires. | 6 | |
| 5772123873 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca with the help of of smallpox, guns, and metal weapons. | 7 | |
| 5772123874 | New France | French colonies in North America from the St. Lawrence River to along the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi river. Heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. | 8 | |
| 5772123875 | Seven Years' War | War between France and England that took place both in the colonies and in Europe. Between 1756-1763 (373). | 9 | |
| 5772123876 | Treaty of Paris | 1763, after seven year's war, New France went under England control in return for a French sugar island in the Caribbean (373). | 10 | |
| 5772123877 | Cape Colony | Colony established in the Cape of Good Hope, Africa by the Dutch, their settlement led to conflicts with the Bantus. (376). | 11 | |
| 5772123878 | Boers | Name for Dutch Settlers in Cape Colony, Southern Africa (376). | 12 | |
| 5772129534 | Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. | 13 | |
| 5772139352 | Prince Henry | Portuguese prince who sponsored navigation, school for study or maritime technology | 14 | |
| 5772144341 | Goa | Indian city developed by the Portuguese as a major Indian Ocean base; developed an important Indo-European population. | 15 | |
| 5772188015 | Calcutta | British East India Company headquarters in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal | 16 | |
| 5772188016 | Astrolabe | An elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators, to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night | 17 | |
| 5772188017 | Cash Crops | A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower | 18 | |
| 5772188018 | Okra | Known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers, ochro or gumbo, is a flowering plant in the mallow family | 19 | |
| 5772189205 | Macao | A Portuguese overseas territory in S China, in the delta of the Zhu Jiang River and including two small adjacent islands | 20 | |
| 5772189206 | Colombian Exchange | Interaction between Europe and the Americas; millions of Native Americans died of new diseases; new world crops spread to other world regions; European and Asian animals came to the Americas | 21 | |
| 5772192191 | East India Companies | British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions | 22 | |
| 5772194299 | Coercive Labor Exchange | A system where the workers were forced to work based on threats, pressure, or intimidation | 23 | |
| 5772197669 | Hernando Cortez | Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire | 24 |
