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13 Cards in this Set
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a period of great intellectual and artistic creativity which encoraged Europeans to pursue new ideas
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Renaissance
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an instrument used that measured the position of the stars
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Astrolabe
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triangular sails which sped up sailing
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Caravel
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better maps and instruments used to improve exploration
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Technology
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his story of travels through the east lead people to become more interested in India, China, and the rest of Asia
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Marco Polo
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to sail around the world
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Circumnavigate
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Spanish explorers that explored the Americas in the 1500's
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Conquistadors
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1492 European explorer to set foot in the New World
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Christopher Columbus
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Spanish explorer that sailed to present day Mexico and conquered the Aztecs
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Hernan Cortes
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the transfer of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas
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Columbian exchange
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there is a strait, river, and bay named for this English explorer
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Henry Hudson
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Spanish settlements established to be based on religious communities
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Mission
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Portuguese explorer that made a huge circle throughout the Atlantic and around the sourthern tip of Africa to India
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Vasco de Gama
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