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Age of Contact
Explorers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Chronology | Determines an age of a feature or event in years. |
| Coast | The part of land near the sea; edge of the land |
| Conflicting territorial claims | A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession of control |
| defining characteristics | A property defining the traits of things. |
| eras | A span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historical geography. |
| explorations | Traveling somewhere that is unknown |
| gold | Some kind of rich, like silver and jewels |
| historians | An expert in or student of history, mostly in the particular period of time. |
| major eras | An important time and place of certain events |
| mapping | A way to write out certain ways historians went and to also keep data of things. |
| relative chronology | Determines the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features. |
| settlement | A place that usually hasn't been established yet or uninhabited. Where people establish a community. |
| 1519 | De Pineda commanded a Spanish Expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline. |
| De Vaca | De Vaca was second in the expedition and he wanted to claim the territory of Florida to Mexico and Spain. |
| De Pineda | De Pineda commanded the Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline from Florida to Cabo Rajo, Mexico, in 1519. |