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14 Cards in this Set
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portolani |
medeival maps and charts |
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Bartholomeu Dias |
first man to try and round the Cape of Good Hope |
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Vasco da Gama |
first man to round the Cape of Good Hope and make it back to Portugal |
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Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque |
set up ports on the western coast of India |
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John Cabot |
Venitian who explored the New England coast line |
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Hernan Cortes |
Found and destroyed Aztec civilization |
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Francisco Pizarro |
took over the Incan civilization brutally |
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encomienda |
economic and social system put in place by Ferdinand and Isabella that allowed the conquistadors to use the natives as laborers |
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Mughal Empire |
Indian empire that was great |
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Sir Robert Clive |
became head of the British East India Company |
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Gerardus Mercator |
invented the mercator projection map; made some continents look misshapen |
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price revolution |
the inflation of European goods caused by the Age of Exploration |
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joint-stock companies |
commercial organization in which idividuals bought shares and profited |
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mercantilism |
dominated economic practices in the 1600s; belief that the total volume of trade was unchangable |
