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28 Cards in this Set
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navagation |
a science used by sailors to find their place and plan their routes |
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convert |
to change someone or one's belief |
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mission |
a place set up by a religous group to teach religoun and other ways to live native people |
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magnetic compass |
a tool shows which direction is north, south, east and west |
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colony |
an area or place that is ruled by an distant country |
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settlement |
a place to live that is set up in a new area |
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circumnavagation |
the act of sailing around something |
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charter |
an official document from an authority to do something |
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reform |
to change |
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entreprenuer |
a person who starts a new buisness |
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tributary |
a river that flows into a larger river or lake |
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astrolabe |
a tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location |
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slavery |
the practice of owning people and forcing to work without paying |
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cartographer |
a person who makes maps or charts |
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Christopher Columbus |
the island of San Salvado |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
his crew members circumnavagated the world |
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Jacques Cartier |
he found the St.Lawrence River |
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Samuel de Champlain |
found a trading post that became the city of Quebec |
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Marco Polo |
he wrote a book about Asia |
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Amerigo Vespucci |
found America |
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
he was the first to see the Pacific Ocean |
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Henry Hudson |
looked for the the Northwest Passage |
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Bartholomeu Dias |
he found the South tip of Africa |
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John Cabot |
he discovered the main land of North America |
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How did the invention of new technology tools and advances influence sailing? |
They knew which way to go |
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Explain the original goals of European exploration?How and why did it change after Columbus' discovery? |
They wanted gold and riches.There were more explorers who wanted to search for Asia |
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What European countries explored and claimed land in North America? |
Spain and Potrtugle |
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Why did colonists choose to build their settlement near the sea or along the river? |
So they could get food resources and can travel on sea |
