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16 Cards in this Set
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Astrolabe |
a device that enabled navigators to learntheir ships location by charting the position of the stars |
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Caravels |
a device that enabled navigators tolearn their ships location by charting the position of the stars |
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Line of Demarcation |
divided the Atlantic Ocean. Spaincould claim all land of the line |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
moved the Line of Demacrcation 800miles further west |
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Circumnavigate |
go all the way around |
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Columbian Exchange |
This started columbus's explorations |
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Encomienda system |
gave settlers the right to tax localnature Americans or to make them work. In exchange these settlers weresupposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity |
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Conquistadors |
- Soldiers who led militaryexpeditions in the America |
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Plantations |
Large farms that grew just one crop |
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Protestants |
Reformers who protested some catholic Churchespractices |
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Spanish Armada |
a huge fleet of warships to endenglish plans |
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Northwest Passage |
A water route through North Americathat would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
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Charter |
A document giving Sir Walter Raleighpermission to start a colony |
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Immune |
people who had natural resistance |
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Middle Passage |
the voyage aceross the atlantic ocean thatenslaved africcans were forced to endure |
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African Diaspora |
Enslaved africans were sent all across the NewWorld |
