Exploration

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Prince Henry

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Portuguese member of royalty, started the school the school of navigation.

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Bartolomeu Dias

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a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.

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Vasco da Gama

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was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient.

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Hernando Cortes

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Beat the Aztecs

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Francisco Pizarro

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was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth

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Mestizo

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a person of combined European and Native American descent.

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Atlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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Middle passage

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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1] were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade

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Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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Favorable balance of trade

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When the value of the exports are greater than the imports

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.

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Dutch East India Company

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chartered company established in 1602, when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Wikipedia

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Christopher Columbus

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Genoese explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Colony

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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conquistador

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a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

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Atahualpa

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was the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Tawantinsuyu (the Inca Empire) before the Spanish conquest.

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encomienda

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a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.