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How were City-states and entire Nations trying to increase their wealth and power during this time?
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By expanding their territory
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What is it called when many people want to gain power and wealth by expanding their territory?
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An expansionist worldview
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If they couldn't get control of a certain territory, what would they try to do?
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They would try to spread their idea to this disired land.
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How were they expanding their land?
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They would send out explorers thousands of kilometres into the sea to find new lands to lay claim to
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Where did Portugal expand its territory?
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In Africa.
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What did the Portuguese do with their new conquered land in Africa?
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They put out trading posts and got very invovled with the slave trade.
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What did the Portuguese do with the slaves form Africa?
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They brought them to sugar plantations in the Carribean area.
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How did Portugal become so wealthy with its slaves?
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They sold some of them in a market to people in Portugal. The rest they shipped to the Carribean islands to work for sugar plantations. The sugar went to people in Europe and the money from that went to shipping more slaves to the Carribean islands.
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How many African slaves were shipped to the Carribean area
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Around 1 million slaves.
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What happened to most of the African slaves that were shipped to the Carribean?
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Most of them died of bad conditions or until they died from working so hard.
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Who led the first Portuguese expedition around the Cape of Good Hope (the south tip of Africa)
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Bartolomeu Dias
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How many years after Christopher Columbus' discovery of the new world did the Portuguese finally make it to the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope (the south tip of Africa)
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5 years
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The first Portuguese expedition to the Indies was lead by who?
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Vasco Da Gama
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After Vasco Da Gama finally got to the Indies from Portugal, how often did Portugal make trips their?
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Once a year
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Who was also trying to get to the Indies at the same time as Portugal?
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Spain
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Who thought that the Portuguese trading with the Indies was a threat to their wealth?
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The Arab merchants who had been working their for centuries.
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So the Arabs decided to attack the Portuguese and had many more men on their side. But who won and why?
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The Portuguese won because they had cannons.
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What century was the Portuguese seen as the wealthiest country in Europe
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In 1500
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What year did Christopher Columbus find the Americas?
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In 1492
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Where did Christopher Columbus think he was?
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In the Indies
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What year did the pope give Portugal all the land in the world to the east and Spain the west?
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In 1494
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How did the other European countries think of this?
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They were very mad and some people just ignored it
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All European countries began to take control of all new lands they discover even if their was already other people there. What type of world view is this called?
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An imperialistic worldview
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Define imperialism
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the extension of power over a territory and its resources and people
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