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European exploration
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. A property that defines that which possesses it. |
| 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 | the action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it. |
| 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. |
| Historians | an expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period, geographical region, or social phenomenon. |
| Major eras | a point in time, esp one beginning a new or distinctive period the discovery of antibiotics marked an era in modern medicine. geology a major division of geological time, divided into several periods the Mesozoic era. |
| Mapping | an operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set (the range). |
| Relative chronology | Relative Chronology: A chronology that determines the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features or events (for example, younger than or older than). Chronology: The order of events according to time. |
| Settlement | a place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community. |
| 1519 | The year when Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda mapped out the gulf of mexico while sailing along the edge |
| Era: Age of Contact | 1519-1689 the time when the Spaniards and french were discovering and colonizing the gulf of mexico and Texas |
| Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda | A Spanish explorer who made the first map of the gulf of mexico in 1519 |
| Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | A Spanish explorer who landed in Galveston and went on a long journey through Texas where he was taken prisoner by native Americans and later found other stranded explorers. |
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