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38 Cards in this Set
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What did Columbus call surprised inhabitants?
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Indians
Los indios |
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colonies
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lands that are controlled by an entire nation
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....conquered the ... in ...
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Hernando Cortes
Aztecs 1521 |
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reasons why Cortes conquered Aztecs
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superior weaponry
help of native groups Aztecs could not stop disease |
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mestizo nationalities
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Spanish
Native America |
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name of Spanish explorer who claimed modern-day Florida for Spain
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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French explorer claimed the entire river valley of the ...... River for France
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Sieur de la Salle
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first settlement in North America and when
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1607
Jamestown |
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privateer
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privately owned armed ships
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conflict in 1754
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French and Indian War
Seven Year's War |
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helped the British army defeat the French in... in North America
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1763
British colonists |
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names of disease that cause most deaths to Native Americans
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measles
smallpox |
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Why did European owners have to use Africans as their source of labor instead of Native Americans?
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Native Americans died from disease and warfare
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reasons why Europeans saw advantages in using Africans as their labor force
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immunity to European diseases
experienced farmers little knowledge of land |
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where did most of the AFrican slaves imported by the British end up?
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West Indies
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nickname of middle leg
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middle passage
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percent increase in sharks in Atlantic
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300%
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things Africans brought with them which helped economically to the development of the Americas
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muscle
expertise in agriculture |
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Italian trader who found his way to .......'s court in ....
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Kublai Khan
1275 Marco Polo |
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Marco Polo's book
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Marco Polo's Travels
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What did Marco Polo's book do?
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spurred exploration
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things that spurred age of European exploration
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Caravel for better sailing
desire to grow rich desire to spread Christianity |
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Europeans battled in ...against the ...for control of Holy Land
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1100
Muslims |
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types of people gathered at Price Henry's navigation school to perfect their trad
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map maker's
instrument makers shipbuilders scientists sea captains |
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motives drove Europeans to solve problems of sailing in 1400's
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God
Gold Glory |
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nickname of Prince Henry
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Henry the Navigator
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things portuguese traded with the Africans for
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gold
ivory slaves |
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convinced Spain to finance bold plan of finding route to Asian by sailing west
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Christopher Columbus
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sailory used .... to help determine their location on the sea, which was developed by the...
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astrolabe
Muslims |
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invented magnetic compass
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chinese
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suggested imaginary dividing line
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Pope Alexander VI
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Line of Demarcation
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imaginary dividing line from north to south across Atlantic
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what did the Portuguese gain by seizing the Strait of Malacca?
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control of Moluccas
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claimed the Philipping Islands in...
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1521
Spain |
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led the Spanish expedition that arrived in Phillipines
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Ferdinand Magellan
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who had the largest fleet of ships in the world in 1600?
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Dutch
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Boers
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Dutch settlers in S.Africa
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apartheid
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legal system of severe discrimination
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