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History
10th Grade
04/25/2013

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Vasco de Gama
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Portuguese sailor who landed in India and brought many jewels and spices back home.
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Ferdinand of Aragon
Definition
A soverign who was married to Isabelle of Castille, which made the Spaniards stronger.
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Fransisco Coronado
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Spaniard who searched for gold cities, but instead discovered the Grand Canyon and hige herds of buffalo.
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Francisco Pizarro
Definition
Conqueror who destroyed the Incas in Peru and gave Spain a lot of riches.
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Price Revolution
Definition
Increased customer cost to about 500%
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Encomienda System
Definition
System that allowed the government to give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them.
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Mestizos
Definition
People of mixed Indian and European heritage.
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John Cabot
Definition
Explorer sent by the English to explore the northeastern coast of North America to find silver and gold.
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Pope's Rebellion
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A revolt by the Pueblo Indians against the Spaniards.
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Henry VII
Definition
King of England who, in the 1530s, broke with the Roman Catholic Church, causing religious conflicts.
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Protestant Reformation
Definition
Religious conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants.
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Elizabeth I
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Protestant Queen of England who caused Protestantism to be dominant in England.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Organized an expedition to North Carolina to colonize the Americas.
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Philip II
Definition
Used his imperial gains to make an Invincible Armada for Spain to attack England.
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King James I
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King of England who gave the Virginia Company a charter to start a settlement in the New World.
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Lord De La Warr
Definition
Governor of James River who ordered the settlers back to Jamestown, imposed a harsh military regime on the colony, and soon undertook agressive military actions against the Indians.
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First Anglo-Powhatan War
Definition
War between the Virginia Compant and the Indians which ended in a peace settlement that married Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Definition
Indians made one last effort to dislodge the Virginians and were defeated again.
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Act of Toleration
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guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those, like Jews, who denied the divinity of Jesus.
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