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51 Cards in this Set
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Leif Eriksson
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Viking who sailed to the island of New Foundland
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Henry the Navigator
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Prince; advanced Portugals exploration efforts;
never sailed himself : funded exped. West Cst Africa built an observation founded a school of navigation financed research by mapmakers/shipbuilders |
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astrolabe
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device that allowed navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars
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caravels
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ships that used triangle sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind
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Christopher Columbus
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sailor from Geenoa, Italy. 1492 sailed 3 ships Nina, Pinta, ans Santa Maria. Thought he found a new route to Asia, but had landed in the bahamas
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Line of Demarcation
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imaginary line divided the Atlantic Ocean. Spain claimed all land west of the line
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Spain and Portugal signed treaty to move Line of Demarcation 800 miles further west.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese navigator.
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circumnavigate
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go all the way around
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Columbia Exchange
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European explorers brought plants and animals to America. They brought plants and animals to Europe, Asia, and Africa....dramatically changed the world.
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conquistadors
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soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas.
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Hernan Cortes
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left Cuba to sail to present-d day Mexico
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Motezuma II
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ruled Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizzarro
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conquisitor; conquerored the inca capital of Cuzco
conquered the Inca |
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encomienda
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gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or make them work. In exchange the settlers were suppose to protect the Native Americans and covert them to christianity
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plantations
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large farms that grew one kind of crop.
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Bartolome de Las Casa
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priest who tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity
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Protestant Reformation
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religious movement began in small erman towns...quickly spread through Europe...church too wealthy, abused powers.
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Protestants
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reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church practices.
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Spanish Armada
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huge fleet of warships meant to end English plans.
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Northwest Passage
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a water route through North America that would allow ships sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Jacques Cartier
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French sailor;led major expedition to Canada. claimed land for France
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charter
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a document giving permission to start a colony
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immune
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has a natural resistance to
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Middle Passage
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voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure.
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African Diaspora
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enslaved Africans were sent all across the New World.
diaspora is the scattering of a people. |
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Who were the first Europeans to make contact with North America
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The Vikings
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Vikings were skilled sailors who developed a new style of ship, called a longship.
True or false |
true
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Prince Henry the Navigator did what?
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funded the voyages
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The Portuguese sent many enslaved Africans to Europe and to the islands in the Atlantic, they had brutal living conditions
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True
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Christopher Columbus
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- sailor from Genoa, Italy
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Who did Columbus ask to pay for an expedition across the Atlantic?
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Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Spain
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who led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present-day South America
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Magellan
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Portuguese navigator, set out with a fleet to reach the Philippine Islands and Indian Ocean
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Magellan
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What was an exchange of plants and animals between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa?
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The Columbia Exchange
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What did explorers introduce to the Americas without intending to?
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deadly new diseases
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Europeans shipped millions of what to work in colonies in the New World, as part of a triangular trade?
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enslaved Africans
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What German priest publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church in 1517?
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Martin Luther
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Protestant Reformation
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religious movement against the Catholic Church
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What is a machine that produces printed copies using movable type?
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printing press
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French Protestants where known as?
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Huguenots
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English sailors who raised Spanish treasure ships
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sea dogs
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Jacques Cartier
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French sailor who led France's exploration of North America
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Where did France build its first North American settlements?
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Florida
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Tenochtitlan
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Aztec capital built on an island in the middle of the lake
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Malintzin
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Indian woman who helped Cortez win allies
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presidios
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military bases
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Ponce de Leon
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discovered the coast of present-day Florida
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What caused Europeans to look for new labor force?
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European diseases killed Native Americans
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Who along with colonist suggested using enslaved Afr. Americans
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Ho many slaves were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves between 1520 and 1860?
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about 12 million
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