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34 Cards in this Set
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What is a device that shows directions?
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Compass
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Who is an italian spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia?
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Christopher Columbus
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What is a Mexican group that used to be nomadic?
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Aztec
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What's the name of the sea route that receives slaves?
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Triangle Trade
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What is the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another?
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Cultural Diffusion
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Who was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China?
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Marco polo
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What's the name of the instrument on a map that shows directions?
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Compass
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What is it called when a government efforts to gain more wealth than other rival nations?
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Mercantilism
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What's the name of the disease caused by lack of vitamin C?
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Scurvy
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Who is the Portugese navigator and discoverer of the Straits and phillipines?
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Magellan
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Who is the italian navigator that discovered America?
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Christopher Columbus
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Who is known as "Henry the Navigator"?
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Prince Henry
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Who is the Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico?
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Hernan Cortes
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Who is the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru?
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Francisco pizzaro
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Who is a venitian traveler?
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Marco Polo
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Who is the man that discovered the Cape of Good Hope?
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Bartholomew Dias
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What is the name of the Portugese explorer who found a route from Portugal to the East?
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Vasco De Gama
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What's the name of the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another?
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Cultural Diffusion
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What is a Spanish conquerer?
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Conquistador
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What is a member of an ancient Central American Indian people who inhabited the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico?
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Olmec
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What is a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central mexico that was conquered by Cortes?
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Aztec
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What is a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the spanish conquest?
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Inca
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What is a member of a modern American Indian people of southern mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras who are the descendants of this ancient civilization?
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Maya
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The Spanish name for mule is called?
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Mulatos
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What is a descendant from South America and Europe that was born in the United States?
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Native Americans
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What is a person who during Spanish Colonial times lived in the new world but was born in Spain?
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Peninsulares
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What's a term traditionally used in Latin America and Spain for people of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent?
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Mestizos
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What was the social class in the caste system of the overseas colonies established by Spain in the 16th century?
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Criollos
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What is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas?
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New World
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What consists of those parts of Earth known to classical antiquity and the European Middle Ages?
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Old World
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What was a dramatically widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture and human populations, including slaves?
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Columbian Exchange
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What is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions?
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Triangle Trade
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What was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were taken to the New World?
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Middle passage
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The Atlantic Slave Trade was also known as?
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TransAtlantic Slave Trade
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