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10 Cards in this Set
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Hiawatha
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legendary leader of the Iroquois Confederation.
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Marco Polo
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traveled to China and stirred up a storm of European interest.
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Iroquois Confederation
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as a group of 5 tribes in New York state.
They were matrilineal as authority and possessions passed down through the female line. Each tribe kept their independence. |
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Columbus
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convinced Isabella and Ferdinand to fund his expedition.
His goal was to reach the East (East Indies) by sailing west, thus bypassing the around-Africa route that Portugal monopolized. He misjudged the size of the Earth though, thinking it 1/3 the size of what it was. So, after 30 days or so at sea, when he struck land, he assumed he’d made it to the East Indies and therefore mistook the people as “Indians.” |
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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1494 – Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The Pope drew this line as he was respected by both.
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When Worlds Collide
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Of huge importance was the biological flip-flop of Old and New Worlds. Simply put, it was a trade of life such as plants, foods, animals, germs.
From the New World (America) to the Old corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, peppers, manioc, pumpkin, squash, tomato, wild rice, etc. also, syphilis From Old World to the New cows, pigs, horses, wheat, sugar cane, apples, cabbage, citrus, carrots, Kentucky bluegrass, etc. devastating diseases – smallpox, yellow fever, malaria as Indians had no immunities. The Indians had no immunities in their systems built up over generations. An estimated 90% of all pre-Columbus Indians died, mostly due to disease. |
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Vasco Balboa
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“discovered” the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Panama.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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circumnavigated the globe (he was the first to do so).
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Ponce de Leon
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touches and names Florida looking for legendary “Fountain of Youth”.
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Montezuma
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the Aztec king, thought Cortez might be the god Quetzalcoatl who was due to re-appear that very year. Montezuma welcomed Cortez into Tenochtitlan.
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