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44 Cards in this Set
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what did the europeans call the land they found in the americas?
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new world
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Africa, Antartica, and asia where all part of?
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old world
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what is the exchange of plants animals and ect. from the east and west hemisphere?
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culombian exchage
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what is the trade tat is between three places and is formed in a triangle?
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triagle trade
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a passage way for a quicker rout to get through africa?
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middle pasage
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what is the name of the trade that shipped slaves over from afrca to the americas?
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transatlantic slave trade
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what is the name of the object that sailers would use to find there way?
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compass
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a goernments efforts to gain more wealth than other rivals?
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mercantilism
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what is the name of illness you would get from being out at sea for a long period of time?
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scurvy
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he sat sail to spain/ he also named the pacific ocean?
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magellan
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went to find a shorter route to asia by sailing west?
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christopher columbus
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who had his explorers claim the azore for portugal?
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prince henry
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who landed in mexico in 1519 with 600 men, 6 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 couer the inca in 1530 and defeated a much larger force of inca worriors with a handful of men?
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francisco pizarro
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who sailed around the cap of good hope at the southern tip of afrca?
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bartelemeou dias
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who sailed eastward across the indian ocean?
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vasco da gama
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what it is called when two or more cultures share ideas?
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cultral diffusion
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what is a place known for haveing large stone heads and had no cities but instead had ceremonial centers?
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olmec
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compass
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A compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the Earth's magnetic poles
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mercantilism
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Mercantilism is an economic theory which holds that the prosperity of a state is dependent upon its supply of the things there
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scurvy
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Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C, which is required for the synthesis of collagen in humans
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magellan
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese Spanish explorer
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christopher colombus
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who realized that the world was round
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prince henery
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Although he was called Prince Henry the Navigator by the English, Prince Henry never actually sailed on any of the voyages
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fransisco pizarro
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Francisco Pizarro González, Marquess was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima
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marco polo
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Marco Polo was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione,
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bartholemu dias
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Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
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vasco da gama
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Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer
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hernan cortez
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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec
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cultural diffusion
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cultural diffusion Cultural diffusion is the spreading of ideas or products
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conquistador
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Conquistador meaning "conqueror" in the Spanish and Portuguese languages)
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olmec
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The Olmec were a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico,
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aztec
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The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language
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inca
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The Inca civilization (or Inka) began as a tribe in the Cuzco area,
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maya
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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas
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native americans
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Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States
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peninsulares
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a peninsular was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland
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mestizos
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Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America and Spain for people of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent
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criollos
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The Criollos (singular: Criollo) were a social class in the caste system of the overseas colonies established by Spain in the 16th century
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new world
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The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas and sometimes Australia
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old world
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The Old World consists of those parts of Earth known to classical antiquity and the European Middle Ages.
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colombian exchange
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The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases,
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middle passage
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were taken to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade
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trans atlantic slave trade
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transatlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean
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