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27 Cards in this Set
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Compass
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Mercantilism
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goverments power to get more wealth
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who is christopher columbus?
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he meant to go to Asia but ended up in america and met natives from here and went back to spain
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hernan cortez
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Came to america and natives thought he was god.
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who is prince henry
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prince henry is a navagator from protugal
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who is hernan cortes
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hernan is a guy from spain who took captive of the aztec
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who is francisco pizarro
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was a Spanish conquistador
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marco polo
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was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic who wrote Il Milione
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Bartholomew Dias
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Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
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Vasco Da Gama
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1st Count of Vidigueira c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524 was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery
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Cultural Diffusion
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trade between diffrent cultures
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Conquistador
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is the term widely used to refer to the Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers
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olmec
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The Olmec were a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico
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Aztec
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The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of mexico
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Inca
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The Inca civilization (or Inka) began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac
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Maya
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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas
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Mulatos
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It may derive from the Portuguese and Spanish word mulato, which is itself derived from mula (from Old Spanish, from Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid
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Native Americans
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people who were in america befor any one eles
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Peninsulares
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In the colonial caste system of Spanish America, a peninsular was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World
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Mestizos
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In the colonial caste system of Spanish America, a peninsular was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World
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criollos
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The Criollos (singular: Criollo) were a social class in the caste system of the overseas colonies established by Spain in the 16th century
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new world
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The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas
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old world
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The Old World consists of those parts of Earth known to classical antiquity and the European Middle Ages.
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Columbian Exchange
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The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture and human populations (including slaves),
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triangle trade
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trade between africa america europe
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Middle Passage
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were taken to the New World
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TransAtlantic Slave Trade
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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean
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