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33 Cards in this Set
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The country where Columbus was born.
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Italy
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The name for the 7 Cities of Gold in the American Southwest
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Cibola
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Explorer who crossed Panama and found the Pacific Ocean
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Balboa
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Led the expedition that eventually sailed around the world.
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Magellan
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Italian who sailed for England, found the eastern edge of Canada
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John Cabot
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Frenchman who first found the St. Lawrence River
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Cartier
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The number of voyages Columbus made to the New World.
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four
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Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
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De Soto
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The ocean between Europe and the New World.
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Atlantic Ocean
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The ocean that Columbus never knew about
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Pacific Ocean
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The location where Magellan lost his life
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Philippines
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The place that Columbus was trying to sail to when he bumped into the New World
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Spice Islands, or Asia, or China, or the Orient, or India
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The first European country to establish an all water trade route with Asia
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Portugal
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The series of religious wars that caused Europeans to learn about the riches of the East
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Crusades
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The French explorer who explored the Mississippi River
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La Salle or Marquette or Joliet
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Name 2 reasons that European explorers traveled to the New World
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to find riches, to find a water route to Asia,
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What "passage" did the explorers continue to search for, even though it did not really exist?
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Northwest Passage
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An explorer who worked for England and Holland....named a bay after himself
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Henry Hudson
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The gulf located south of the United States
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Gulf of Mexico
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The number of years it took for a Spanish crew to travel around the world
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3 years
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In what century did most of the Spanish explorers travel to the New World
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16th century
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The continent that the Portuguese sailed around to get to India
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Africa
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The direction Balboa had to travel to get from Spain to the New World
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West or southwest
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Most of the French explorers came to North or South America
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North America
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Of these, which did the Europeans bring to the New World....corn, horses, pumpkins, or buffaloes
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horses
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Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas
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Pizarro
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Country, today, where the Inca lived
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Peru
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Italian explorer who traveled in Asia, wrote a book about his travels
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Polo
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Spanish explorer who took gold from the Aztecs
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Cortes
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Country, today, where the Aztecs lived
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Mexico
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He discovered Brazil
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Cabral
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A large area of land or group of people ruled by a powerful ruler
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empire
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A trade route between Asia and some Arabic cities
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Silk Road
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