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Age of Exploration |
Time period from 1418 to 1620 in which Europeans explored other parts of the world. |
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Circumnavigate |
To travel completely around something, such as the earth. |
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Northwest passage |
A imagined water route many searched for that went through North America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
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Henry the Navigator |
He encouraged Portugese exploration and began a school of Navigation. |
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Mercantilism |
An economic policy where nations try to gather as much gold and silver as possible, done by controlling trade and establishing colonies. |
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Indulgence |
remission by the pope of temporal punishment in purgatory |
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Reformation |
improvement in the condition of institutions or practices |
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Protestantism |
the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation. |
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Theocracy |
a political unit governed by a deity |
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Lutheranism |
teachings of Martin Luther emphasizing the cardinal doctrine of justification by faith alone |
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Navigation |
the art of guiding a vessel from place to place safely |
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Discover |
to be the first to find out, or see something |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
confirmed Portugal's right to the eastern route to the Indies as well as to any undiscovered lands in the east, entitled Portugal to Brazil (granted rights to the African slave trade) |
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New Imperialism |
conquering entire regions and subjigating their populations imperial colonial expansion |
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Old Imperialism |
characterized by establishing posts and forts on coastal regions but not penetrating inland to conquer entire regions or subjigating their population |
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Columbian Exchange |
the trading of plants, animals, ideas, and diseases between the Old World and New World |
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New World |
the parts of the world that were unknown to Europeans before the Age of Exploration. Included North America and South America |
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Scientific Revolution |
a major change in European thoughts, starting in the mid-1500s, where people started studying the world based on careful observation and the questioning of accepted beleifs |
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Pandemic |
diseases that spread over a large area or worldwide |
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4G's of motives of exploration |
gold, god, glory, and ground (land) |
