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28 Cards in this Set
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What is a compass?
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A compass is a tool used to help navigate.
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What is mercantilism?
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Mercantilism is the goverments power to get more wealth.
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What is scurvy?
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Scurvy is a diesase people get from lack of vitamin C.
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Who sailed around the Alantic Ocean?
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Magellan
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Who founded the West Indies and found San Salvador?
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Christopher Columbus
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Who founded a school for navigation?
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Prince Henry
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Who landed in Mexico in 1519?
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Hernan Cortez
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Who defeated the Inca?
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Francisco Pizzarro
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Who brought back stories from Asia?
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Marco Polo
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Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope?
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Who sailed East across the Indian Ocean?
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Vasco Da Gama
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What is cultural diffusion?
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The spread of ideas, culture, and religion.
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What is a conquistador?
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A Spanish conqueror.
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Who is known for their giant stone heads?
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Olmec
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What Mesa Civilazition was in Central Mexico?
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Aztecs
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Who had the largest empire in the americas and used to quipu?
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Inca
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Who had hieroglyphic writing and complex math and science?
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Maya
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Who are Caucasian & Africian?
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Mulattos
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Who were here when the Spanish arrived?
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Native Americans
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Who were the people born in spain?
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Peninsulares
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What were the Mestizos?
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Native American and Euopean descent
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What were the Criollos?
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American born descendents of spanish settlers
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What was the New World?
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Another name used for the americas
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What was the Old World?
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The European Middle Ages
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What was the exchange between the Americans and Europeans?
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The Columbian Exchange
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What was the Triangle Trade?
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A trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
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What was the Middle Passage?
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The trade between Africa and America in the slave trade.
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What was the TransAtlantic Slave Trade?
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The process of trading goods between Africa, Europe, and America.
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