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22 Cards in this Set
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A device that helped sailors find their way around the ocean.
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Compass
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The economic theory that a nation's prosperity depended upon its supply of gold and silver.
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Mercantilism
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A disease that results from insufficient intake of vitamin C.
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Scurvy
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He discovered the Pacific Ocean.
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Magellan
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He discovered a tiny island and named it San Salvador.
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Christopher Columbus
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Called "The Navigator" and discovered/claimed the Azores for Portugal.
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Prince Henry
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Conqured the Aztec impire in Mexico.
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Hernan Cortez
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Discovered the Incan empire and conqured it.
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Francisco Pizarro
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He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China.
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Marco Polo
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The first European to see the stormy Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Made a second voyage to India.
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Vasco Da Gama
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the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.
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Cultural Diffusion
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A conquerorv of the Spanish soilders who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico.
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Conquistador
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Earliest known Mexican civilization, known for large stone heads, 1400-500 BC
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Olmec
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Founded Tenochtitlan around 1325, declines as a result of the spanish arrival, 1300-1535 AD
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Aztec
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Largest empire of the Americas, no writing system, 1200-1535 AD
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Inca
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Complex civilization with series of city-states, complex series of mathmatics, 250 BC-1400 AD
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Maya
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A mixed person of black and white.
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Mulatos
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A member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
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Native Americans
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A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus.
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Peninsulares
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A person of mixed racial ancestry.
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Mestizos
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A Spanish American of European, usually Spanish descent.
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Criollos
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