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34 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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Genoese sea captain made daring voyage from spain in 1492. He landed on in island in Caribbean.
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October 12, 1492
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Pinta caught sight of shoreline. By dawn landed ashore in Caribbean.
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los indios
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term mistakingly applied to all native peoples of the Americas.
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colony/colonies
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Lands controlled by another nation
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
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Spanish explorer marched through modern day panama and became first European to gaze upon the pacific ocean.
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Hernando Cortés
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1519 spaniard landed on shores of mexico. Claimed new lands for spain.
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Conquistadors
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conquerors
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Tenochtitlán
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Aztec capital
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Montezuma II
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Aztec emperor convinced that cortes was a god wearing armor.
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Malinche
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Native woman translator helped cortes learn some natives resented aztecs
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Francisco Pizzaro
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1532 another conquistador marched small force into south America conquered incan empire.
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Atahualpa
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Incan ruler
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Cuzco
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Incan capital
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Peninsulares
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Spanish settlers to America
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Encomienda
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System Spanish forced native Americans to work within. Natives farmed ranched or mined.
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Spanish explorer 1513 landed on coast of modern day florida and claimed it for Spain.
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Popé
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1680 pueblo ruler who led a well organized rebellion against spanish
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New France
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quebec
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Marquette and Joliet
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French Jesuit priest and trader who explored great lakes and upper mississipi claimed entire river for france.
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Jamestown
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Colonists claimed land named in honor of king.
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Pilgrims
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1620 group who founded second English colony Plymouth. Persecuted for religious beliefs
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Puritans
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Also sought religious freedom from England’s Anglican church established larger colony near Massachusetts bay
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Dutch West India Company
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dutch merchants claimed the region along the hudson river hudson bay and hudson straight and then formed the dutch west india company.
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New Netherlands
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Dutch holdings in north america
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French and Indian War
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1754 dispute over land claims in ohio valley led to war between british and French on north America continent.
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Metacom
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Native American ruler also known as king Philip led attack on colonial villages throughout Massachusetts.
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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Buying and selling of Africans for work in americas
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Triangular Trade |
Africans transported to the Americas part of transatlantic trading network
european goods to africa exchnaged or africans sent to america america sent goods back to europe. |
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Middle Passage
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Voyage that brought captured Africans to the west indies and later to north and south America
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Columbian Exchange
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Global transfer of foods plants and animals during colonization of americas
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Capitalism
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Economic system based on private ownership and investment of resources such as money or for profit
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joint-stock company
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worked much like modern day corporation with investors buying shares of stock in a company
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mercantilism
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new economic policy. Countries power depended mainly on wealth.
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balance of trade
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in which it sold more goods than it bought.
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