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12 Cards in this Set
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Marco Polo
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Explorer who explored asian areas and brought back ideas back to europe. I.E. pasta
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Ferninand Magellan
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a Portuguese explorer that was contracted by spain and found a passage way threw south america
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Joint Stock Companies
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organizations that sold stock and sharein thier venture
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Columbian Exchange
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The international trading of goods, technology, ideas and illnesses between Europe and the world
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Silk Road
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an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe.
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Circumnavigate
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the sail around the world
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Mercantilism
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Theory in which nationas could be stronger by building up their supply of gold and silver
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Magna Carta
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an English legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. The Magna Carta required King John of England to proclaim certain rights respect certain legal procedures, and accept that his will could be bound by the law
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Christopher Columbus
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An explorer from Italy but he sailed for spain, he accidentaly discovered the americas while searching for a sea route to asia
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which money was invested in business to make profits
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Colonies
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A territory under the immediate political control of a state.
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English Bill of Rights
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an act of the Parliament of England, was passed by Parliament in December 1689 and was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right.
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