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31 Cards in this Set
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Pizarro |
explored for Spain and conquered the Incan Empire in South America |
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Magellan |
Sailed for Spain and his ship was the first to sail around the world |
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Cortes |
Explored for Spain and conquered the Aztecs |
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Vasco de Gama |
Explored for Portugal and the first that sailed to India |
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Cabot |
Explored for England and explored the coast of New England |
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Christopher Columbus |
Explored for Spain and explored Cuba and the Bahamas |
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Hudson |
Explored for England and the Netherlands; discovered Hudson Bay |
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Bartholomew Dias |
Explored for Portugal and went to the tip of South Africa, the Cape of Good Hope |
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Vasco de Gama's discovery of a sea route to India |
was very profitable since de Gama returned with a cargo of spices and made a profit of several thousand percent |
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Christopher Columbus |
went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia |
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sugarcane plantations |
African slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the: |
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Spice Islands |
Moluccas in Asia |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
signed in 1494; constructed by the Pope and established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and Spain |
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Middle Passage |
the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America |
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balance of trade |
the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time |
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Benin |
The African society changed from a brilliant society to a corrupt brutal place by the slave trade |
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Prince Henry |
the person started a school of navigators |
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colony |
settlement of a territory linked to another country |
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plantation |
large agricultural estate |
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triangle trade |
pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America |
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mercantilism |
economic theory that says a country's prosperity depends on a large supply of gold and silver |
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Meleka |
Portuguese port city that was center of the Portuguese spice trade |
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Calcutta, India |
place in the Southeast Asia subcontinent where De Gama landed |
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Brazil |
colony located in South America settled by Portugues |
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Java |
Dutch colony located in the Pacific Ocean |
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Philippines |
Spanish colony located in the Pacific Ocean, Magellan landed here |
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Cartier |
explorer sent by France to the New York area, the St. Lawrence river |
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Marco Polo |
traveled to Asia, sent by Italy and wrote a book about his time with the Mongols |
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God, gold, glory |
3 reasons for exploration |
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Astrolabe |
instrument that helped the explorers navigate the seas |
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pirates |
people who started waiting on the coast of Portugal for explorers to return |
