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14 Cards in this Set
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astrolabe
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A device used to find latitude at sea.
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compass
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A device used to find direction when traveling.
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caravel
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An early type of Portuguese ship.
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cartography
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The science of map making.
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joint stock company
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Buisness that people can invest in by buying a share of the company.
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supply & demand
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People pay more for what's in demand.
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Cottage Industry
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A system in which goods are produced in homes.
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capitalism
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a system in which people, rather than goverments, own property and make goods.
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colony
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a settlement of people living in a new territgory controlled by their home country.
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Spanish Armeda
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defeated the English in 1588
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Named the Pacific Ocean
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Christopher Columbus
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Made four voyages to the America's
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Columbian Exchange
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a global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and even disease began
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Potato
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Europeans discovered that if you planted ______ instead of grain, about four times as many people could live off the same amount of land.
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