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16 Cards in this Set
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Bartolomeu Dias |
Portuguese explorer who rounded the Southern tip of Africa |
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Vasco De Gama |
Explorer who gave Portugal a direct sea route to India |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
Imaginary line created to solve the disagreement between Spain and Portugal over new lands |
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Prince Henry |
Portuguese explorer who sailed down the coast of Africa and started navigational schools |
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Dutch East India Company |
Directed and controlled trade throughout Asia/India |
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Christopher Columbus |
Explorer who landed in the Americas and though he was in India |
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Hernando Cortes |
Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs |
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Francisco Pizarro |
Conquistador who defeated the Incas |
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Monteczuma |
Leader of the Aztecs when Cortes arrived |
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Atlantic Slave Trade |
Buying and selling Africans for work in the Americas |
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Middle Passage |
Voyage or journey that brought captured Africans to the Americas |
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Columbian Exchange |
Global transfer of foods, plants, and animals |
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Mestizo |
Person mixed with Spanish and Native American blood |
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Encomienda |
System of mining and farming using natives as slave labor (Spanish plantations) |
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colony |
land and people controlled by another nation |
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Mercantilism |
economic policy or idea that a country's power depends on its wealth |
