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Early Explorers
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Chronology | A chronology that determines the age of a feature or event in years. |
Coast | the part of the land near the sea; the edge of the land. |
Conflicting Territorial Claims | A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of land between two or more territorial entities. |
Defining Characteristics | A property held by all members of a class of object that is so distinctive that it is sufficient to determine membership in that class. (Ex. Happy, Round, Green) |
Eras | An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. |
Exploration | Exploration is the act of searching for a purpose |
Gold | a yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used especially in jewelry and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies. |
Historian | an expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period, geographical region, or social phenomenon. |
Major Eras | Eras that are more important that others |
Mapping | The making of a map. |
Relative Chronology | A chronology that determines the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features or events |
Settlement | A place where someone/something takes a home in |
1519 | A specific year, 501 years earlier than today. |
Era: Age of Conflict | An era of war. |
France and Spain Spanish Alonso Álvarez de Pineda Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | A conqueror that constantly went from Slave, to Friend in an Indian tribe and eventually escaped after putting up with it for too long. |