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28 Cards in this Set
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What did the Europeans call the land they found in the Americans?
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New World
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Africa, Antaricta, and asia where all parts of?
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Old World
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A widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture and human populations would be?
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Columbian Exchange
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What is the trade that is between three places and is formed in a triangle?
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Triangle Trade
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A passage way for a quicker route to get through Africa?
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Middle Passage
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What was the name of the trade that shipped slaves over from Africa 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 goverments 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 long preiods of time?
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Scurvy
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He set sail to spain/ He also named the pacifc ocean?
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Magellan
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Went to find a shorter route to asia by sailing westward?
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Christopher Columbus
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Who went to find gold for Portugal. And find rich spice trade?
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Prince Henry
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Who landed in Mexico in 1519 with 600 men- 6 horses and a few canons in search of gold and silver?
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Hernan Cortez
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Who set sail out to cover 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 africa?
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Bartelemeou Dias
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Who sailed eastward arcoss the Indian ocean?
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Vasco Da Gama
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What is it called when two or more cultures share ideas?
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Cultural Diffuision
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Who traveled to China?
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Marco Polo
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This refers to the Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers what were they called?
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Conquistador
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These were the earliest known mexica civiliztion also known for large stone heads?
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Olmec
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What civiliztion founded what became Mexico City?
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Aztec
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What civiliztion had the largest empire of the Americas? And had no writing system used?
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Inca
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What civiliztion made the 365 day calander? And has Hiroglypic writing?
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Maya
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What are mixed people called?
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Mulatos
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What were the indigenous peoples of the American called?
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Native Americans
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What was a Spanish-born Spaniard called?
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Peninsulars
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People of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent is?
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Mestizos
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Were a social class in the caste system?
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Criollos
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