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show Portuguese mariner; first European to reach India by sea in 1498.  
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show Italian navigator in the service of Aragon and Castile; sailed west to find a route to India and instead discovered the Americas in 1492.  
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Ferdinand Magellan   show
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East India Companies   show
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World economy   show
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show Interaction between Europe and the Americas; millions of Native Americans died of new diseases; new world crops spread to other world regions; European and Asian animals came to the Americas.  
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Lepanto   show
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Core nations   show
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show Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials; dependent on European markets and shipping; tendency to build systems based on forced and cheap labor.  
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show Began first Spanish settlement on Mesoamerican mainland in 1509.  
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show French colonies in Canada and elsewhere; extended along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down into the Mississippi River valley system.  
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show British colonies in North America along Atlantic coast from New England to Georgia.  
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show Concluded in 1763 after the Seven Years War; Britain gained New France and ended France’s importance in India.  
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show Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to provide a coastal station for Dutch ships traveling to and from the East Indies; settlers expanded and fought with Bantu and other Africans.  
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Boers   show
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show British East India Company headquarters in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal.  
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Seven Years War   show
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Cape of Good Hope   show
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show Economic theory that stressed governments’ promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.  
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Mestizos   show
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Francisco Pizarro   show
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John Locke   show
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William Shakespeare   show
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