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| 8602610502 | Bartolomeu Dias | the first European (Portuguese) to sail around the Southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope (1488) (interactional) | 0 | |
| 8602610503 | Vasco da Gama | the first European (Portuguese) to reach India by sea sailing from Europe around the tip of Africa, allowing Europeans to not have to go through Muslim middlemen to access Asian markets!! (1497) (interactional) | 1 | |
| 8602610504 | Pedro Alvares Cabral | first European (Portuguese) to settle in Brazil & began clearing that land for sugar plantations (1530) (interactional) | 2 | |
| 8602610505 | Christopher Columbus | voyaged to the "New Land" accidentally & set colonization in motion (interaction between humans & environment) (1492) | 3 | |
| 8602610506 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec, established New Spain, & built Mexico city in place of Tenochtitlan (1519) | 4 | |
| 8602610507 | Ferdinand Magellan | attempted to circumnavigate the world (1519) | 5 | |
| 8602610508 | Francisco Pizarro | Conquered Incas, built Lima in place of Cuzco & it became part of Peru (1532) | 6 | |
| 8602610509 | Treaty of Tordesillas | -established a line of demarcation (boundaries) between Spanish and Portuguese territories. -Spain could lay claims to anything West (South America & Mexico); Portugal anything East (Southern Africa, Eastern Southern Africa, & India) | 7 | |
| 8602610510 | Encomienda System | -the native people were thought to be savage & needed to be saved, so the Spaniards wanted to spread Catholic faith to the natives -worked like Feudalism in Europe -natives paid tribute in exchange for protection & religious instruction -but the conquistadors used abuse & oppression to exploit the natives (who then lost everything about themselves) -brutal conditions led to Atlantic Slave Trade | 8 | |
| 8602610511 | Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors/soldiers/explorers that wanted wealth, power, & prestige, wanted to spread Catholicism, & wanted increase opportunities for their mother country of Spain to trade & become more powerful & wealthier | 9 | |
| 8602610512 | Repartimiento | -means "distribution" or "partition" (as in division of labor among Spanish colonial landowners) -natives were forced to work in Spanish-owned plantations of silver mines for several months out of the year -at first, workers were poorly compensated & worked to death, but later on, those bad things were replaced with incentives to work, such as better working conditions & fair wages | 10 | |
| 8602610513 | Spanish Conquest of Manilla | 11 | ||
| 8602610514 | Colombian Exchange | 12 | ||
| 8602610515 | England exploration | 13 | ||
| 8602610516 | France exploration | 14 | ||
| 8602610517 | Netherlands exploration | 15 | ||
| 8602610518 | Capitalism | 16 | ||
| 8602610519 | Mercantilism | 17 | ||
| 8602610520 | Joint-stock companies | 18 | ||
| 8602610521 | Atlantic Slave Trade | 19 | ||
| 8602610522 | Triangular Trade | 20 | ||
| 8602610523 | Slave Trade Patterns | 21 |
