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28 Cards in this Set
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What new invention helped sailors find north and helped them get around the ocean easier?
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The Compass
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What is merchantilism?
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A countries effort to gain more wealth than other rival nations
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What illness did part of Magellan's crew catch?
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Scurvy
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What were Magellan's great acheivments?
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He named thePacific Ocean and his crew made the first round-the-world trip
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Who found the Americas when he was really looking for a shorter route to Asia?
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Christopher Columbus
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What were Prince Henry's greatest achievments?
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He explored Africa, started trade in slaves, gold and Ivory, and opened a school for navigation
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Who teamed up with the enemy of the Aztecs to defeat them?
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Hernan Cortez
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What is Francisco Pizarro famous for?
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He conquered the Inca empire
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Whoes travels stimulated trade with Central Aisa and China?
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Marco Polo
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Bartelemeou Dias Is famous for what?
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He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and found the route to the Indian ocean
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Who sailed across the Indian Ocean and landed in India?
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Vasco da Gama
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What is cultural diffusion?
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The trade of ideas, culture and religion through war, migration and exploration
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"Conquistador" means what in spanish?
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conqueror
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What are the Olmec known for?
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They are the earliest known Mexican civilization and the stone heads
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What race founded what is today Mexico City and had a hierachical society?
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The Aztecs
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What are the Inca known for?
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They were the largest empire in the Americas, they hand-built a large network of roads, used quipu instead of a writing system, and used agricultural terrecing and irrigation systems
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What ancient race had a complex civilization and had a 365 day calander?
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the Maya
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What were people who were from African and European descent?
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The Mulatos
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Where were the Native Americans in the social structure?
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the bottom because they kept dying
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Who were the Peninsulares?
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Aristocrats who were born in Spain
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What were people who were of Native American and European descent called?
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Mestizos
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Who were the Criollos?
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American born decendents of Spanish settlers
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Where was the New World?
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In the weastern hemesphere
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What did they call the part of the world that had Europe, Africa and Aisa?
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The Old World
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What was the Columbian exchange?
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It was the transfer of plants, animals, ideas and diseases between the Americas and Europe
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The Triangle trade went to which three contenents?
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Europe to Africa, Africa to America, America to Europe
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What was the ocean route from Africa to America that had horrible conditions called?
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The Middle Passage
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What caused the TrasAtlantic Slave Trade?
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The need for cheap labor in the Americas
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