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34 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first explorer to sail around the tip of Africa?
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Bartolome' de las Casas
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Who was the explorer who discovered the long awaited sea route to Asia?
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Vasco Da Gama
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Who conquered the Incan emperor?
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Which explorers' crew found Quebec?
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Samuel de Champlain
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What is a 3 masted ship?
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Caravel
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Which Portugese rince laid the ground work for a new era of exportation?
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Prince Henry
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed to America in these ships.
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Nina', Pinta, and the Santa Maria
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Who was the first spainiard to land on the mainland of North America?
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Juan Ponce de Leon'
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What was the hystorical period of intellectual and artistic creativity?
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Renaissance
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Porteguese traded for this from their post in Africa.
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Gold/Ivory
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What city became an important center for Islamic art and learning under King Mansa-Musa?
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Timbuktu
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What helped Marco Polo's book gain wider cirrculation?
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Moveable type/the printing press
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What was the city once named New Amsterdam?
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N.Y.C.
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"Rebirth"
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Renissance
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What was an an instrument used to measure position of the stars?
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astrolabe
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These were explorers who recieved grants from Spain
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Conquistadors
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What is a narrow, twisting passage to an ocean?
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Strait
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French wanted to establish this in the America's.
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Trading posts
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England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover this.
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Northwest passage to Asia
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runers of the wood
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coreurs de bois
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A very famous Aztec Emperor
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Montezuma
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This man was the leader of the Songhai Empire
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Askia Muhammad
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This man and his army conquered the aztec Empire
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Hernan Cortes
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Hernando De Soto traveled as far as this present-day city
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Oklahoma
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Very famous french priest
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John Calvin
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People with Spanish and Indian parents
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Mestizos
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Defeated the Songhai people
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Morrocans
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Mali's greatest king
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Mansa Musa
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right granted by the Spanish government to the conquistadors turned Native Americans into slaves
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The right to explore and establish settlements in America
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Gave Spain the right to North and South America
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Term meaning "Spanish upper class"
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Peninsulares
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Very famous viking sailor
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Leif Ericksson
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Term for west African coast
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Gold Coast
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Author of the book "Travels"
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Marco Polo
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