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21 Cards in this Set
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Bartholomeu Dias |
Explorer that rounded the Southern tip of Africa in 1488. |
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Vasco Da Gama |
Went across the Cape of Good Hope and cut across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India, discovering a new route for trade. |
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Melaka |
Thriving port for spice trade. |
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Christopher Colombus |
Founder of the Americas to Europe. He sailed westward thinking he would reach Asia. |
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Line of Demarcation |
Divided the newly discovered territories of Spain and Portugal in the Americas. |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
Signed in 1494, extended the line from north to south through the Atlantic and the easternmost part of South America. |
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John Cabot |
Explored the New England Coastline of the Americas. |
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Amerigo Vespucci |
Went along on several voyages and wrote letters describing the lands he saw. |
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Conquistadors |
Spanish Conquerors of America |
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Hernan Cortes |
Led the force that destroyed the Aztec Empire |
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Francisco Pizarro |
Took control of the Inca Empire |
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Encomienda |
right to use native americans as laborers |
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The Columbian Exchange |
extensive exchange of plants and animals between the old and new worlds. |
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Colony |
settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent control by trade and direct government control. |
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Mercantilism |
Belief that a nation's prosperity depends on a large supply of bullion. |
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Balance of Trade |
difference in value between what a nation imports and exports over time. |
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plantations |
large agricultural estates |
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triangular trade |
Connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and the American continents in trade. |
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Middle Passage |
Journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas. |
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Mainland States |
Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, remnants of Angkor Kingdom in Cambodia. |
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Bureaucracy |
body of nonelective government officials. |
