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15491973Vasco da GamaPortuguese mariner, reached India by sailing around the tip of Africa0
15491974Christopher ColumbusItalian navigator for Spain, discovered Americas1
15491975Ferdinand MagellanPortuguese captain in Spanish service, began first circumnavigation of the globe2
15491976East India CompaniesBritish, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia3
15491977World economycreated by Europeans during the late 16th century, control of seas, international exchange of foods, diseases, and manufactured products4
15491978Columbian ExchangeInteraction between Europe and the Americas, Native americans died of smallpox, horses/cattle came5
15491979LepantoNaval battle between Spain and the Ottoman empire resulting in Spanish victory6
15491980Core nationsnations, usualyy European, that profited from the world economy, exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials7
15491981Dependent economic zonesRegions within the world economy that produced raw materials. forced and cheap labor8
15491982Vasco de Balboabegan first Spanish settlement on Mesoamerica, modern panama9
15491983New FranceFrench colonies in Canada and elsewhere10
15491984Atlantic coloniesBritish colonies in North America along atlantic coast11
15491985Treaty of ParisConcluded in 1700s after Seven Years War12
15491986Cape ColonyDutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in Africa, station for ships traveling to India13
15491987BoersDutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony14
15491988CalcuttaBritish East India Company headquaters in Bengal15
15491989Seven Years WarFought in Europe, Africa, and Asia ( french- indian war) ( UK wins)16
15491990Cape of Good Hopesouthern tip of Africa17
15491991MercantilismEconomic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve taxes18
15491992Mestizosmixed European and Indian ancestry on Mesoamerica and South America19
15491993Francisco PizarroLed conquest of Inca Empire20
15491994John LockeEnglish philosopher who argued that people could learn everything from their scenses and reason21
15491995William ShakespeareEnigh poet and playwright, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet22

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