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What did Prince Henry do

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Encourage overseas exploration in Portugal

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Who gets to the coast of India

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Vasco de Gama

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Who thought he reached China

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Christopher Columbus

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Who takes control of spice trade and from who

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The Portuguese take control from the Muslims

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What three territories did Portugal claim

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The straight Hormuz , the straight of malacca, the Philippines

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What company does the Netherlands form

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Dutch East India Company

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Pedro Álvares

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Claimed Brazil for Portugal

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Claimed the east coast of South America for Portugal

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Balboa

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Find panama in the Pacific for Portugal

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Sails around South America and goes to Guam

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Hernando cartés

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Claims Mexico for the Spanish
Gets tenochititlan and got a bunch of gold
conquered the Aztecs because of superior weapons, natives who didn’t like the Aztecs, smallpox, measles

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Francisco Pizarro

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Claim south America for Spain

Conquers the Inca by kidnapping the ruler and then capturing the capital

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Define encomienda

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The Spanish are landlords over native to Mina ranch like in the feudal system

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Cabral

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Claims Brazil for Portugal and turns it into sugar plantations

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Ponce de Leon

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Claims Florida for Spain

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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Claims Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma area for Spain

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Pedro de peralta

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Claim Santa Fe for Spain

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Who speaks out against encomienda system

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Priests

19
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What is the Treaty of Tordesilla

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A treaty that stated where Portugal and where is Spain could colonize

20
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Jacques Cartier

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Claimed Canada in the St. Lawrence River for France

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Giovanni da Verazzo

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Claimed the New York Harbor for France

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Samuel de Champlain

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Claimed Quebec for the France and called it New France

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De la Salle

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Claimed the lower Mississippi river for France

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Henry Hudson

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Claim the Hudson Bay, Hudson river, Hudson straight for the Dutch

25
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Who attacks the new Netherlands and what do the Dutch surrender

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The English attack and gain New York

26
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After the French and Indian war, what do the British seize control of

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Most of the eastern half of North America

27
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What is the name of one of the wars between the Native Americans in the English

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King Phillips war

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What were the factors for expiration there were five

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One the desire for more wealth to the want to cut the middleman from traders three the spread of Christianity for improved ships in sales by the use of the Astor globe in the compass

29
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Bartolomeu Dias

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Sails around the tip of Africa

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