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Chapter 1-7
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10th Grade
12/14/2009

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Dias
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Sailed to tip of Africa
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Dagama
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Sailed around Africa to India
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Line of Demarcation
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In 1493 the Pope drew a line on the globe cutting the new world in half. Any territory discovered on the East side of the line was to be controlled by Portugal, while any lands found on the West side of the line were to be ruled over by Spain. Located in Brazil
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Balboa
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 lead a large group made up of both Spaniards, and natives on an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama, where he became the first European to see the Eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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Magellan
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First to circumnavigate the world
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Vespucci
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he was the first to realize that a new world had been discovered, map makers began calling this new land the ‘Americas’ in honor of him.
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Columbus
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he and his men discovered an island in the Caribbean, which they named Hispanolia.
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Ponce de Leon
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Discovered Florida
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Sea dogs
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English Pirates
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