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28 Cards in this Set
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What do sailors use to navigate?
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A compass
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what is mercantilism?
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the governments efforts to be more wealthy than the other nations.
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What disease was caused by lack of vitamin C?
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Scurvy
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Who's crew was the first to sail across the world?
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Who set sail for india but ended in the americas?
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Christopher Columbus
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Who explored westward into the atlantic?
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Prince Henry
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Who landed in mexico in 1519 with 600 men16 horses and a few cannons in search of gold and silver?
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Hernan Cortez
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Who set out to conquer the Inca in 1530?
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Francisco Pizarro
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Who sparked intrest in asian spices, perfumes,and silks?
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Marco Polo
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Who came from portugal and sailed to the cape of good hope?
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Who was the first to sail to india?
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Vasco Da Gama
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what is the the trade of ideas, beliefs,etc.between two or more groups of people?
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Cultural Diffusion
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what's another word for spanish conquers?
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Conquestadors
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what civilization was known for their large stone heads?
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Olmec
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what civilization founded tenochtitlan around 1325?
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aztecs
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what civilization built the largest network of roads(10,000 miles)?
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inca
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what civilization had a complex mathamatics & science?
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maya
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people of african and european descent?
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mulatos
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who where the first humans in america?
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native americans
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iberian aristocrats,people born in spain?
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Peninsulares
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caucasian & amerindian people that are of native american and european descent?
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Mestizos
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descenents of peninsulares. american born descentdents of spanish settlers?
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Criollos
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consists of those parts of Earth known to classical antiquity and the European Middle Ages?
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new world
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one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas?
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old world
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what exchange traded plants,animals,and goods?
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columbian exchange
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a trade route from europe to africa to america and back to europe trading slaves?
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triangle trade
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the roughest part of the triangular trade route?
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middle passage
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what trade route went from europe to africa to the americas trading slaves?
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TransAtlantic Slave Trade
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