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21 Cards in this Set
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Portugese prince whose goal was to be a world force and funded sailing schools
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da Gama
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First Portugese sailor to reach India by traveling around South Africa
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Columbus
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Genoan sailor first to reach New World
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Magellan
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From spain, circumnavigates the world first
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Cortés
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Spanish, kills the Aztecs. Conquers Tenochtitlan. killed 22-25 million
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Montezuma
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Aztec leader
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Pizzaro
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Conquers Incas
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Atahuallpa
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Incan leader
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Amerigo Vespucci
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First to acknowledge the New World
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Oludah Equiano
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A slave who is freed and the writes his biography
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Arawak
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Native people of Hispaniola
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Khipus
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A system used by Incas to communicate
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de las Casas
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A spaniard who sympathizes with slaves
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Columbian Exchange
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food, disease and animals exchanged between worlds.
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Malaria
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Comes from Africa with slaves
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Cassava/manioc
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Grain from New World
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The Middle Passage
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Slave route
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Brazil slave amount
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4,030,000
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US slave amount
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661,000
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Smallpox
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spread from old world to new. huge killer
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syphilis
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disease believed to be passed through new to old.
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