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59 Cards in this Set
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What are the dates of the age of exploration? |
1400 - 1650 |
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What three additional parts of the world Europeans found? |
North and South Amer. Africa Asia |
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What competition spurs exploration? |
Spain & Portugal |
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By the mid 1400s, both Spain & Portugal became what? |
Independent kingdoms |
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Who did they seek trade routes with? |
Asia |
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What did Prince Henry the navigator do? |
Sponsered naval academies |
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Name some new technologies? |
Caravals Astrolabes Accuate maps |
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First European to reach the southern tip of Africa and Cape of Good Hope? |
Bartolomeu Dias |
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First European to sail to India? |
Vasco da Gama |
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Italian merchant; believed the earth was very small and round? |
Christopher Columbus |
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When did Columbus sail to the ____________? |
1942 |
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Where did he sail to? |
Indies |
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10 weeks later they arrived where? |
Hispaniola
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Who provided by comparing maps that this was a new continent? |
Amerigo Vespucci |
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When did he do this? |
1504 |
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What divides the world between Spain & Portugal? |
Treaty or Tordesillas? |
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When was this? |
1494 |
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Who was a Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain? |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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What did he attempt to do? |
Circumnavigate the world |
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What did he come into contact with? |
Diff. cultures |
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Spanish Conquistadors?? |
Hernan Cortes vs. the Aztecs Francisco Pizarro vs. the Incans |
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Who explores the southeast North Amer.? |
Hernando de Soto |
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What were the years of colonialism and change? |
1500 - 1700 |
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What is the act of setting a colony to provide for the home country? |
Colonization |
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What were captured frequently in Africa by other African kingdoms? |
Slaves |
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Europeans would exchange what? |
Their goods for slaves |
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Slaves would be bought by what? |
the Middle Passage |
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What was the most important reason of slevery at the time? |
To convert them to Christianity |
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What were on the plantations? |
Cotton Sugarlane Coffee Rice Tobacco |
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Rivalry for colonies? |
Led to a handful of European nations dominating the world through colonies |
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What lead to wealthy trade routes? |
Caribbean colonies |
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Who provided gold and silver? |
Mexico & New Granada |
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Who did Spain enslave? |
Native Amer. |
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What are royal officials appointed by the king? |
Viceroys |
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Viceroys governed what? |
Colonies |
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Who provided many cash crops? |
Brazil |
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What are grown with the purpose of being sold for profit? |
Cash crops |
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Who remained firmly in Portugal's hand? |
Brazil |
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Who did the French colonize? |
North Amer. |
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What king ordered to have small settlements set up in Quebec? |
French king |
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What is where people can make money from individual's choices? |
Market economy |
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Where did the Puritans land? |
Massachusetts |
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Where did the company workers set up? |
Jamestown, Virginia |
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T/F Puritans are religious people? |
T |
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Who are businesses? |
Company workers |
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Who was taken by private businesses? |
India |
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First nation to round the tip of Africa? |
Portugal |
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Who also set up their own trading posts? |
Britain France Netherlands
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Any place where goods can be brought and sold? |
Market |
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Business w/ multiple owners who share financial responsibility? |
Joint-Stalk Market |
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What did this bring? |
Resources & wealth |
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What happened when Europeans became in contact w/ Amer.? |
Plants Animals Diseases |
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Who wanted to overthrow Elizabeth of England? |
King Phillip II of Spain |
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Spanish Armada vs.? |
the English Sea-Dogs |
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Spain & Portugal's warships entered what? |
English channel |
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The english defeated the Spain by who? |
Francis Drake |
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A country's power dependent on its wealth? |
Mercantilism |
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Private ownership of resources and freedom to make a profit? |
Capitalism |
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Scottish man who was the wealth of nations? |
Adam Smith |
