Age of Exploration Vocabulary

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Monarch

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Single ruler with all the power

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First Global Age

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Era at beginning of 1400’s, long distance travel and trade increased

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Magna Carta

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Signed in 1215, it limited the power of the monarch.

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Missionary

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Person who tries to spread religious beliefs among people.

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Crusades

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Between 1100 and 1300, series of wars fought by Christians to control the Holy Land.

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Circumnavigate

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To go around

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Conquistador

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Name for Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain.

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Columbian Exchange

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The global exchange of goods and ideas between Eastern and Western hemispheres.

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Colony

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A group of people who settle distant land but are ruled by the government of their native land.

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Charter

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Legal document giving certain rights to a person or company