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115 Cards in this Set
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History within the Western Hemisphere didn't begin in 1492 with contact. True of false?
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False
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How many years had people been living in the Western Hemisphere before European contact?
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Some 20,000 to 40,000 years.
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What is the significance of the date 1492?
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This was the beginning of recorded European history.
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What did people cross while slowly mirgrating South?
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A bering strait
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What is a bering strait?
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A narrow sea passage that separates the Eastern tip of Siberia in Russia from Alaska, and links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea |
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Who are mirinants?
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They are people of Mongolian descent
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What is the Majority Theory?
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It is what most scientists bear to
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What is the First Minority Theory?
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Predicated upon settlement patterns and population disbursments; it would tell you that the root of the Majority Theory is incorrect.
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What would some people (from Minority Theory One) argue mirinants descended from?
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The West Coast of Africa America/ Pacific Island
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What is the Second Minority Theory? |
People believed that mirinants sailed from North Africa making it to the Americas. (A scientist even tested this by taking his own voyage which ended up testing reliable) |
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Who were the first Americans to populate the U.S.?
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Mirinants
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What did the Mirinants have? (Think background info)
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They had history, a culture/cultural advances, and established civilizations
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What two regions settled the majority of Mirinants?
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Central and South America
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What are the four major parts of mirinants civilizations?
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1. each one had a system of religion 2. each one had a class system 3. each one had a government 4. each one influenced Europe |
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Where did corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkin, chili peppers, coca, vanilla, tapioca, turkeys, and quinine (drug) originate from?
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The Americanas |
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Culturally the Mirinants contributed to who and what we are. True or False?
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True
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Who were the most dominant civilizations?
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The Mayans
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What did the Mayans develop?
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A system of telling time
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Why was the Mayans' calendar so unique from our everyday calendar?
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They were the first known civilization to use Zero for their calendar
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What did the Mayans predict?
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The end of time
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Was their prediction correct?
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No
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What did the Mayans build and for what reason?
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They built pyramids for observation
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What were the Mayans first advancements in?
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Astronomy
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Did the Mayans have a system of religion?
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Yes
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What was the Mayans written language?
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Pictographs
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What region did the Aztecs dominate?
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Mexico
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Who were the Aztecs?
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A wayline group fo people that acted as mercinaries |
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What did the Aztecs conquer?
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Tribes
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Did the Aztecs have an Empire? Explain.
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Yes they did. The empire expressed dominant control of outlying providences.
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What were the Aztecs known for?
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Their clubs, which were sharp rocks embeded in their clubs to whack people with.
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What was the Aztecs' empire based on?
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Root force
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What did the Aztecs' religious system demand of?
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Sacrifices
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Who was the first settlement upon Lake Texico?
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The Aztecs
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They predicated on the old Aztec fable of what?
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Wherever you see a serpent being devoured by an eagle, perched upon a cactus devouring a snake, sell it.
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The place that the Aztecs first settled upon is known as what in present day? |
Mexico City
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Is Mexico City the largest city in the world? Why or why not?
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Yes because it consists of the largest population and has the biggest religion.
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Who conquers the Aztecs? How is that so?
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Cortez because there wasn't a large number of Aztecs to conquer.
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Where did the Incas settle?
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In present day Peru
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What did the Incas practice?
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mumification |
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What were the Incas known for? (Think promotionally)
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Commercial systems (they were considered traitors)
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What did the Incas come up with?
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The preminant system of architexture
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What nation composed the first people Europeans cam into contact with?
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The Irigua Nation
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What was one of the major motivations for colonialism?
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The advancement of Christianity
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What was pushing people out? (Think Age of Discovery)
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3 G's... Gold, God, and Glory |
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What is the Primo Generator System of Inheritance?
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The oldest son takes (inherits) everything
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What was the Decline of Feudalism?
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The European system declines so the Lord grants a fife, which is a land grant (servants worked on those lands) and feudalism declines because of the crusades (people leaving to fight against Muslims taking valuable resources and pushing them to East)
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What seemed to be the major motivator of people?
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Selfish interests
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What did the men returning from their voyage bring back to Western Europe?
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Spices, Lemons, and Yarns
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How is a Commercial Revolution produced?
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By bringing back foreign products (goods were being brought back into Western Europe)
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What did the Commercial Revolution make people act like?
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Merchants instead of Agriculutral based laborers |
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How did people earn a living during the Commercial Revolution?
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By selling goods
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What did the Commercial Revolution kill off?
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Feudalism
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What was feudalism replaced with?
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Crafts and the rise of guilds (established prices for products)
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What leads to the rise of Towns?
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The Theory of Supply and Demand
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What is the Theory of Supply and Demand?
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Refers to the interaction between the supply of a product and the demand for the product. As the supply increases, the demand will decrease, or as the demand increased the supply will decrease. (promotes business) |
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What were the middle class people referred to as? |
Bougua
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What is the Renaissance?
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At the root is the theory of humanism |
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What is Humanism?
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Taking the empire off of God and placing it on Man
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What happens during The Renaissance?
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Man will move away from explaining the world in which he lived in using "God," now to use "man" (this spurs the curiosity of the world) |
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What is the Scientific Revolution?
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Developments of mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry transformed the views of society and nature.
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What did the people use as way of navigating in place of the stars?
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Maps
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What was the best selling book of the late 15th centry?
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Columbus' Narration
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What two things were invented during the Scientific Revolution?
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The astrolabe (predicts the positions of the sun, moon and stars) and the compass (gives directions by N, S, E and W) |
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During the Scientific Revolution what advancements were made?
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Longitude and Lattitude
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Who is the Americas named after?
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Amerigo Vercuisi |
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Who was Amerigo Vercuisi?
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A map maker who discovered the Americas
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Who was Ponce De Leon?
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He's known for the Fountain of Youth and gave Florida it's name "La Florida" because it was the land of flowers
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What was the first permanent European settlement?
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St. Augustine, Florida
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What happened in 1502?
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The first recording of Africans being imported to Spanish Florida was created
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Who was Hernando De Soto?
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He founded the pathway of the Mississippi River, so De Soto County in Mississippi is named after him.
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Who were the first major European explorers interested in commerce and trade only?
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The Portuguese
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Did the Portuguese set up settler colonies?
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NO |
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Who helped the Portuguese with trade? |
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Who set up a navigational school
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Prince Henry
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What did the Portuguese couple with?
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The advancements of the Scientific Revolution and ship making which allowed them to push out
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Who was Bartholomew Diaz?
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He rounded the cape of good hope to get to the East
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Who was Vasco Da Gama?
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The first European to reach a direct route to far East
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Who was Vasco Nunez De Balboa?
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Discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
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First mere time seller and named the Pacific Ocean (he circumnavigated the world)
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Why is the Pacific Ocean called what it is?
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Because the waters are calm and warm
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What region are the Portuguese most active in?
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Africa (specifically East Africa)
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Did the Portuguese start slave trade? |
Yes
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What is the Gem of the Portuguese Empire?
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Brazil
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What is the largest colony for the Portuguese? Why?
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Brazil because it was the most profitable
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Why did the Spanish set up trades?
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For the benefit of the mother country
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Would small or large numbers of men go into the Spanish colonies?
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Small
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What were the Spanish intermarried to?
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The Native American populations
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Who did the very beginnings of the Spanish originate from?
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Columbus
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What descent was Columbus?
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Italian
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What did Columbus do?
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He made 4 voyages on his own; he was funded by Isabella; he was trying to find a quicker route to East Indies (even though the quickest route had already been discovered)
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Who does Columbus sail with?
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90 men; 20 Africans were aboard the 3 ships
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Who was Pedro Alonzo Nino?
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He was aboard one of the 3 ships that set sail for Columbus' voyages; he was the navigator
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What are the names of the 3 ships used for his voyages?
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The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
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What does he first land in?
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Waitland Islands
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What does Columbus call the Waitland Islands?
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San Salvador
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Where does Columbus sail to after San Salvador?
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Cuba
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Who was the first European to step foot on Cuba?
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Columbus
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Who was credited as the first European to find the U.S.?
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Columbus
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Why were Columbus' voyages important?
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Because it was documented as contact, changes Western Europe's view of the world, and globalized the world
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Where did Columbus originally think he was?
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Somewhere off the Coast of East India |
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Who proved that the world is circular?
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Columbus |
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Who introduced diseases such as small pox into the world?
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Columbus
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Who conquers the Incas?
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Francisco Pazal
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What region was Spain's dominant power located?
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Western Hemisphere
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Who set colonies up as settler colonies (pushed people into them)?
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English
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Why were the English colonies set up?
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Based on merticalism and set up for balance of favorable trade |
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Why do colonies exist?
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To benefit metropoll, to benefit mother country in a variety of ways, and to rid itself of the undesireable
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What do the colonies supply the mother country with?
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Raw resources and goods
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Who was a major buyer of cotton?
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Liverpool, England
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What are some raw resources?
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Gold, rice, indigo, cotton, etc.
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What type of colony was Australia?
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A penicode colony
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What is a Penicode Colony?
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One where people that were living there were making people who couldn't pay off debt leave |
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Who are Religious Decentives?
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Those who protested the Catholic Church |
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What was the English Reformation?
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Henry the 8th was in charge, made people question who was superior: the king or pope? Est. the English church (catholocism)
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What were the 4 biggest religious groups that left England?
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Catholics, Puritans, Quakers, and Mirinits
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