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Essential Knowledge to understand
Columbus

A Sailor For Hire:

A sailor that could be hired by a ship's owner for many different roles on board a ship. The ultimate goal of a sailor would be to work their way through the ranks to become officer and to command their own ship. The higher the rank, the higher the wages they could ask for from the boat's owner. 

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Indigenous

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A person who is considered indigenous has naturally evolved in that place. They have not travelled there from somewhere else and stayed a long time. They originated in that place. 

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Watling Island

Columbus was attempting to reach the West Indies but instead, landed on Watling Island. This is in the Caribbean. 

Plunder 

 

Verb - To steal goods that do not belong to you.

Noun - Goods that you have stolen that do not belong to you.  

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