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33 Cards in this Set
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Marco Polo |
Italian explorer who was first European to make it to China by sea told stories of his travels that inspired the Age of Exploration |
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Rennaissance |
period of intellectual and artistic creativity
1400's |
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Technology |
the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
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Astrolabe |
an instrument that measured latitude based on the position of the stars
helps with sailing navigation |
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Caravel |
3-masted ship
sailed faster than earlier ships more cargo space |
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Mansa Musa |
Mali's greatest king
Africa king who was richest, most powerful, most fotunate, most feared by enemies and most able to do good to those around him ruled from 1307-1332 |
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Mosque |
Muslim houses of worship
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Mecca |
holy city of Muslim people
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Henry the Navigator
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the prince of Portugal who created a center of exploration and brought astronomers, geographers, and mathematicians together to share their knowledge with Portuguese sailors and shipbuilders
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Bartolomeu Dias |
Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the Cape of Storms/Cape of Good Hope
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Vasco da Gama |
Portuguese explorer who was the first to reach India by going around the Cape of Good Hope
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Columbus |
Italian explorer (who sailed for Spain)
thought he could reach Asia by sailing west found America instead |
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Ferdinand and Isabella |
King and Queen of Spain
famously financed Columbus' journey |
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Line of demarcation |
an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic from the North Pole to the South Pole
divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal Pope Alexander VI |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
an agreement to move the line of demarcation further west gave Brazil to Portugal and Spain got most of North and South America |
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Vasco Balboa |
governor of a Spanish town in present day Panama
he discovered and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain |
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Magellan |
the first person to circumnavigate the globe
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Circumnavigate |
to sail around the world
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Conquistador |
Spanish soldier in America who had the right to explore and establish settlements in the Americas
known to use force |
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Hernan Cortes |
conquered the Aztec in Mexico
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Francisco Pizarro |
conquered the Inca in South America
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Montezuma |
welcomed Cortes and his soldiers because he thought they were gods (based on dream), eventually he was made a prisoner and killed, empire taken over |
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Atahualpa |
leader of the Inca at the time Pizarro conquered them
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Ponce de Leon |
first Spanish landing in the mainland of North America
searching for fountain of youth and gold |
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Francisco Coronado |
wanted to find the fabled seven cities of gold southwestern North America |
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Bartolome de las Casas |
Spanish priest who condemned the cruel treatment of the Native Americans
he reported abuses to the authorities in Spain and pleaded for laws protecting them owned encomienda with Native Americans who worked with him |
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Slave trade |
buying and selling of people as property
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Columbian Exchange |
transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, and diseases
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Father Kino |
a Spanish missionary in what is now southern Arizona and northern Mexico
baptized thousands of Native Americans |
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Martin Luther |
German priest who protested church practices
started Protestant Reformation |
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Mercantilism |
the economic theory that a nation's power is based on its wealth |
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Giovanni Verrazano |
Italian explorer who sailed for France
explored North American coast from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas (including New York harbor) |
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Henry Hudson |
English explorer who sailed for the Dutch
explored the Hudson Straight and Hudson Bay and Hudson River looking for Northwest Passage |
