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13 Cards in this Set
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England's first permanent settlement (1607) in North America, it was located in what is today Virginia.
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Jamestown
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Dutch sailor who searched for the Northwest Passage and claimed much of Northern Canada when he was employed by the British.
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Henry Hudson
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Sir Francis Drake, Sirt John Hawkins, and Sir Walter Raleigh were among this group of adventerous English sea captains who challenged Portugese and Spanish sea trade sumpremacy and robbed foreign vessels of their valuables.
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Sea Dogs
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Fifteenth-century English explorer who traveled to the coasts of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New England. His voyages led to England's claim in North America.
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John Cabot
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Portugese navigator whose crew first circumnavigated the globe and thus proved that the world was round and that the New World was not a part of Asia. Furthermore, his exploration of the Pacific Ocean yielded its name because of its pacific, or calm, nature.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portugese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa and thus found the route to the Indian Ocean. This helped establish an overseas trade route from Europe to Inida and the East Indies, which provided Europeans with the cargoes of jewels and spices they so desired.
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Bartholomeu Dias
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Indian explorer commissioned by Queen Isabella of Spain to find a shorter route to Asia by sailing westward. In 1492, he sailed on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria going west across the Atlantic. He landed on what he called the Indies but were actually islands in the Caribbean.
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Christopher Columbus
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Agreement between Spain and Porgugal to divide from north to south the Atlantic Ocean so that the two nations would not be competing for the same lands in their zealous explorations. Spain was to explore the lands west of the line, while Portugal was to have the eastern region.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Italian navigator who crossed the Atlantic several times and officially called the land thought by Columbus to be Asia the "New World." Later, a German cartographer renamed this land "America" in honor of his work.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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A new economic theory in the 1400s based on the idea that a country's wealth was measured by the amount of gold and silver it possessed. This led to fierce competition for metallic riches through exploration and imperialism.
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Mercantilism
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Second leg of the three-part trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in which African slaves traveled across the Atlantic. The slaves were sold for products produced on large farms, or plantations. This passage was cruel and fatal for many.
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Middle Passage
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A period of econonomic innovation that was a result of colonization and exploration between the late fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. This period saw the rise of join-stock companies and the growtht of mercantilism.
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Commercial Revolution
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1842 agreement ending the Opium War between China and England and giving England control of Hong Kong and regioinal ports, as well as awarding British citizens extraterritoriality rights.
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Treaty of Nanjing
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