Connecting The Columbian Exchange And Trans Antlantic Slave Trade

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What did the Europeans call the land they found in the Americas?

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New World

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Includes Africa, Asia, and Europe, plus surrounding islands.

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Old World

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What is the transfer of plants, animals, ideas, and diseases between the Americas and Europe called?

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Columbian Exchange

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What is the exchange of plants, animals, people, ideas, and disease between Europe, Africa and the Americas called?

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Triangle Trade

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What is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the Earth's magnetic poles?

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Compass

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What is the economic theory that says that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another.

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Mercantilism

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A disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C.

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Scurvy

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Portuguese explorer in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands". First expedition to travel around the globe.

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Magellan

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Italian explorer who's voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American Continents.

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Christopher Columbus

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Prince of Portugal responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents.

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Prince Henry

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Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish Conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of the Republic of Peru.

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Francisco Pizarro

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A Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic who wrote Il Milione, which introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.

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Marco Polo

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A Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and found the route to the Indian Ocean.

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Bartolomeo Dias

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Portuguese explorer who sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean and landed in India, returned with ships full of valuable goods.

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Vasco De Gama

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term widely used to refer to the Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal.

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Conquistador

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Earliest known Mexican civilization with no cities but ceremonial centers. Developed the first calender and writing system in the western Hemisphere, and known large stone heads

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Olmec

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Founded Tenochtitlan. Hierarchical society, polytheistic with human sacrifice, 360 day religious calender and 365 solar calender. Declined as a result of Spanish arrival.

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Aztec

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Largest empire of the Americas, with a network of roads that stretched 10,000 miles. No writing system, used quipu instead. Used agricultural terracing & irrigation systems. Declined as result of Spanish arrival.

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Inca