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28 Cards in this Set
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Compass
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A new technology that helped people navigate
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Mercantilism
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Governments will to become richer
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Scurvy
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A disease that effects the gum and teeth
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Magellan
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Had the first crew to sail around the world
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Christopher Columbus
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Discovered the Americas for Europe
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Prince Henry
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Made a school for naviagtion; also known as Henry the Navigator
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Hernan Cortez
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Brought the end of the Aztec
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Conquered the entire Incan empire
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Marco Polo
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Went to Asia and wrote a book about the great things there; which sparked trade with Asia and Europe
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Bartholomeu Dias
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First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope
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Vasco Da Gama
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The first to sail from Europe to India
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Cultural Diffusion
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The mixing of two groups of people
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Conquistador
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A Spanish conquerer
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Olmec
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Earliest known Mexican civilization; known for giant stone heads
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Aztec
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Founded modern day Mexico City
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Inca
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Largest empire of the Americas
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Maya
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Created the 365-day calender
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Mulatos
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People of European and African descent
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Native Americans
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People who lived in the Americas before the Europeans "found" them
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Peninsulares
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People in the Americas that were born in Spain
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Mestizos
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People of Native American and European descent
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Criollos
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American born Spanish descedants
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New World
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The Americas
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Old World
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Europe, Asia and Africa
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Columbian Exchange
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The trade between Europe and Americans
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Triangle Trade
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The trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
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Middle Passage
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Passage from Africa to America that slaves were traded on
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TransAtlantic Slave Trade
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The trade of Slaves from Europeans to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas
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