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A tool used by sailers to go through the sea?
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Compass
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what is an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests?
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Mercantilism
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What is a desease you get of lack of vitamin C?
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Scurvy
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Who was the explorer
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Magellan
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who is Prince Henry?
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Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) was a prince from Portugal. He was called Infante Dom Henrique in Portuguese
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Who is Hernan Cortez?
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an explorer and conqueror from Spain. Between 1519 and 1521, he conquered the Aztec empire of emperor Moctezuma where Mexico is today
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who is Francisco Pizarro?
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a Spanish conquistador
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who is Marco Polo?
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famous for his travels through Asia.
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who is Bartolomeu/ Bartholomew Dias?
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was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail past the Cape of Good Hope.
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who is Vasco Da Gama?
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He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope, the southern end of Africa. He went to India three times by ship.
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what is a Cultural Diffusion?
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When at least two different cultures share ideas and inventions
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what is a Conquistador?
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A conqourer
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who is the Olmec?
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people who lived about 3000 years ago in what is today south-central Mexico
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who are the Aztec?
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culture of human sacrafice.
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who is the Inca?
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began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac, founded
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who is the Maya?
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Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas,
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who are the Mulatos?
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which is itself derived from mula
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what are Native Americans?
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The origina people from america
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who are the Peninsulares?
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another word for itallian native
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who are Mestizos?
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another worrd for italian native
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what is the New World?
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the americas
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what is the Old World/
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england
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what is the Columbian Exchange?
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exchange in slaves and foods.
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what was the Triangle Trade?
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A trade in the americas england and africa
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what is the Middle Passage?
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passage to the americas
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what are Criollos?
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an italian native
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what is the TransAtlantic Slave Trade?
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illegal trading of slaves
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