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Early Exploration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| absolute chronology | the age of a feature or event in years |
| coast | part of land near sea |
| conflicting territorial | disputes over the division of land or water bodies |
| claims | a demand or request for something considered one's due |
| defining | telling something of what it means |
| characteristics | a feature or quality belonging typically to a person |
| eras | equal rights amendment |
| exploration | Traveling in or through an unfamiliar area |
| gold | shiny yellow mental |
| 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 |
| mapping | an operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set |
| relative chronology | determines the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features or events |
| settlement | a place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community |
| 1519 | Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, explore the coast of Mexico |
| de Pineda | 1519, explore the coast of Mexico |
| de Vaca | 1527, second in command of an expedition headed up by Panfilo de Narváez |