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22 Cards in this Set
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Who was Vasco De Gama? |
Found a trade route to Asia by sailing around Africa. |
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Who was Hernan Cortes? |
Conquered the Aztec |
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Who was Francisco Pizarro? |
Conquered the Inca |
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Who was Juan Ponce de Leon? |
Colonized Florida looking for the fountain of youth. |
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Who was Ferdinand Magellan? |
First person to circumnavigate the world. |
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Who was Christopher Columbus? |
Found the Caribbean Islands. |
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Who was Francisco Coronado? |
Colonized the Southwest |
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Who was John Cabot? |
First Englishman to reach Canada |
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Who was Robert de LeSalle? |
First to sail the Mississippi for the French |
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Who was Jacques Cartier? |
First to sail the St. Lawrence River for the French |
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Why did the Portuguese explore? |
To find trade routes to Asia |
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Why did the Spanish explore? |
For gold and silver |
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Why did the French explore? |
To find a southwest passage to Asia |
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Where did the Portuguese create settlements? |
West Africa and Brazil |
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Where did the Spanish create settlements? |
Florida, Mexico, Southwest, Caribbean Islands |
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Where did the French create settlements? |
Canada and the Mississippi region. |
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What culture visited the Americas before Columbus? |
Norse vikings |
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What did the economies of the Spanish and Portuguese settlements rely on? |
Slave labor |
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Define the word: Mission |
A religious settlement |
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Define the word: Plantation |
An estate on which crops such as tobacco, coffee and sugar are cultivated by resident labor. |
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What was the Columbian Exchange? |
Columbus establishing communication between continents so they could trade. |
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What was the Northwest Passage? |
A northwest passage to Asia by sailing around Africa discovered by Vasco De Gama |
