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21 Cards in this Set
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What was the transatlantic slave trade? When and where did it happen?
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the trading, mostly African people, to the colonies of the New World. This happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It was from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
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What was the middle passage?
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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
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What is triangle trade?
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A historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.
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What did the "colombian exchange" exchange?
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Animals, plants, culture, slaves, diseases, and ideas.
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What is the old world?
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Europe, Asia, and Africa, before the discovery of the Americas.
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What is the new world?
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North and South America regarded together in relation to Europe, after the early voyages of European explorers.
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What are criollos?
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The Criollos were a social class in the caste system of the overseas co.lonies established by Spain in the 16th century.
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What are mestizos?
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A man of mixed race, esp. the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
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What are peninsulares?
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A peninsular was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World, as opposed to a person of full Spanish descent born in the Americas.
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What is a Native American?
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A member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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What is a mulato?
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Mulato denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry.
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Who are the Mayans?
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a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
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What is a Inca?
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A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru.
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What is an Aztec?
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A member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
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What is an Olmec?
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A member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico, who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
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What is a conquistador?
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A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
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What is cultural diffusion?
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The spread of a culture and/or an individual trait.
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Who is vasco de gama?
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A Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery.
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Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
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A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
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Who is Marco Polo? What is he famous for?
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He is an italian traveler who's account of his travels spurred the European quest for the riches of the East.
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Who is Francisco Pizarro?
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima.
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