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Term | Definition |
saga | long, spoken tale repeated from one generation to the next |
Eric the Red | Viking explorer who sailed to Iceland in about 965 and Greenland in about 982 |
Leif Ericsson | son of Eric the Red; sailed to North America in about 1000 and explored what is today known as Newfoundland |
Vinland | the name given to North America by Viking explorers |
slave trade | buying and selling of humans |
navigation | science used by sailors to plot their course and determine their location |
Columbian Exchange | movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life |
Amerigo Vespucci | Italian navigator who sailed along the eastern coast of South America in 1501 |
Bartolomeau Dias | Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope |
Vasca de Gama | Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497 |
Prince Henry | Prince of Portugal who established a school for sailors and navigators |
Cape of Good Hope | The southern tip of Africa |
expedition | a journey made for a special purpose |
colony | a settlement far way from the country that rules it |
Christopher Columbus | the first European to establish lasting contact between Europe and the Americas |
West Indies | a chain of islands discovered by Christopher Columbus |
conquistador | Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s |
conquest | capture or taking of something by force |
convert | to change from one belief to another |
colonist | person who lives in a colony |
Hernando Cortes | Spanish conqueror of the Aztec empire |
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca empire |
New Spain | after conquistadors took over the Aztecs, they founded a new colony in Mexico City |
Moctezuma | leader of the Aztecs when Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec empire |
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