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31 Cards in this Set
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San Salvador
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Christopher Columbus
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Wrote travels
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Marco Polo
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newfound land
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John Cabot
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Eastern shore of the Pacific
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vasco Nunez de balboa
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inca conqueror
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Francisco Piazzario
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Fountain of youth
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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circumnavigation of the world
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Ferdinand Magellan
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India by sea
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Vasco Da gamma
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sailed for the Dutch and English
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Henry Hudson
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Aztec conqueror
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Cortez
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Cape of Good Hope
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barthoromeo Dias
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Brazil
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Pedro Cabral
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Capital city was tenochtitlan
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Aztec
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used terraces to farm in the mountains
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inca
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known for using irrigation channels
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Hokohan
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used hieroglyphics to write with
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Maya
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lived in the southwest United States
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Anasazi
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fable trade route through America
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Northwest passage
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mud bricks used in the southwest
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Adobe
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Siberia/Alaska land bridge
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berringia
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0° longitude
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prime meridian
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continent the explorers were trying to reach
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Asia
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allowed more permanent settlements
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agriculture
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New World Spanish explorers
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conquistadors
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people who move from place to place
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nomads
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0° latitude
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equator
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divided the new world between Spain and Portugal
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treaty of tordesillas
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dominant religion in Europe before 1500
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catholic
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Country that first took the lead in exploration
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europeans
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created a school for sailors
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Prince Henry
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nautical advancements
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Technology, better Maps, Astro lab, improve magnetic compass, rudder, late
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