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European Exploration and Conquest

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Conversos   show
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Charles V   show
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show Spaniards born in the New World to Spanish parents  
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show Characterized by establishment of posts and forts on coastal regions but not penetration inland to conquer entire regions or subjugate their populations.  
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show led Jesuit missionaries to Asia where by 1550 thousands of natives had been converted to Christianity in India, Indonesia, and Japan.  
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Dutch East India Company   show
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Hernan Cortes   show
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show Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru  
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"Golden Age of Spain"   show
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show Amerindians worked for an owner for certain number of days per week but retained other parcels of land to work for themselves  
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show Spaniards married Amerindian women creating children of mixed white and Native American descent.  
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show Priest and former conquistador whose father had accompanied Columbus on his 2nd voyage  
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show Division of new world discovered by Columbus between Spain and Portugal at the behest of Pope Leo V .  
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show Discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513.  
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show His ship was the first to circumnavigate the globe and charter the enormous size of the Pacific Ocean .  
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Conquistadores   show
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show Holy Roman Emperor elected in 1273. He began a long line of Hapsburg emperors. His marriage caused the Holy Roman Empire to gain the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Burgundy.  
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show An empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806.  
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Hapsburgs   show
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Mercantilism   show
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show Primary motives of exploration  
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Ferdinand and Isabella   show
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show In medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century.  
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Spanish Inquisition   show
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show The First Grand Inquisitor of Spain and was a nephew of the celebrated theologian and cardinal, Juan de Torquemada.  
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show denoted the wealthy stratum of the that originated during the latter part of the Middle Ages  
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Columbian Exchange   show
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show Disease in which the Aztecs suffered which also caused a defeat from Hernan Cortes and his 600 troops.  
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Prince Henry the Navigator   show
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show He rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488  
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show Building on Dias' route,he completed an all water expedition to India in 1498; Brought back Indian goods creating a huge demand for them in Europe; was a cause of the economic and political decline of the Italian city-states.  
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Amerigo Vespucci   show
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Christopher Columbus   show
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show Refers to transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the Old and New World.  
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smallpox   show
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Syphilis   show
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