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Mesoamerica vocab
world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Zheng He | a Chinese explorer that led 7 voyages to southeast Asia and eastern Africa. |
| Vasco da Gama | Portugal, first European to reach India by sea |
| Christopher Columbus | Spain, discovered the new world. Landed in Caribbean islands and south America |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Spain, fist explorer to circumnavigate the world |
| James Cook | England, claimed New Zealand and Australia for England. |
| Samuel de Champlain | France, established fur trade settlement in Canada, map maker and sailor. |
| Columbian Exchange | unintentional exchange of goods b/w the New and Old worlds. |
| Astrolabe | an angle measuring tool that was vary important for sea navigation at the time |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | the treaty b/w Spain and Portugal that gave a majority of the land in south and central America to Spain and Brazil to Portugal. |
| Hernando Cortes | Spain, defeated Aztecs in Mexico they thought he was a god. |