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Early Exploration
Term | Definition |
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absolute chronology | the age of a feature or event in years |
coast | part of land near sea |
conflicting territorial | disputes over the division of land or water bodies |
claims | a demand or request for something considered one's due |
defining | telling something of what it means |
characteristics | a feature or quality belonging typically to a person |
eras | equal rights amendment |
exploration | Traveling in or through an unfamiliar area |
gold | shiny yellow mental |
historians | an expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period, geographical region, or social phenomenon |
major eras | a point in time, esp one beginning a new or distinctive period the discovery of antibiotics marked an era in modern medicine |
mapping | an operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set |
relative chronology | determines the age of a feature or event relative to the age of other features or events |
settlement | a place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community |
1519 | Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, explore the coast of Mexico |
de Pineda | 1519, explore the coast of Mexico |
de Vaca | 1527, second in command of an expedition headed up by Panfilo de Narváez |