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32 Cards in this Set
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Silk Road |
Trading Route |
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Prince Henry the Navigator |
Set up Naval research center and sent out sailors to explore |
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Vasco de Gama |
Explorer from Portugal. Rounded the Cape of Good Hope in Africa |
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Ottoman Turks |
Blocked the silk road and made it dangerous |
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Line of Demarcation |
split Spain and Portugal areas they were allowed to explore |
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Spain |
Conquered a lot of land. Kicked off by Christopher Columbus |
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Circumnavigation |
To navigate around the world |
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SPEFN |
Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands (5 Empires) |
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Henry Hudson |
Explored farther into what is now Canada |
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Bartholemu Dias |
Explored southern tip of Africa in 1497 |
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Verrazano |
Explored northeast America and Canada |
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Henry Hudson (Netherlands) |
Further explored into Canada |
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James Cook |
Claimed Australia for the English Empire |
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John Cabot |
Traveled around the coast of Greenland to North America and was killed by natives. He sailed for England |
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Pope Alexander VI |
Drew the Line of Demarcation for Spain and Portugal |
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Conquistadors |
Conquered natives with advanced fire power |
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Compass |
Tells you if you're going East, West, North or South |
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Astrolabe |
Allowed sailors to determine their latitude. It uses the stars to pinpoint location |
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Hull |
To pull something very heavy |
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Mast |
Holds up the sails on a boat |
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Rudder |
Helps steer the boat in the right direction |
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INternational Trade |
Where they trade for goods for a profit |
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Export |
to send (goods or services) to another country for sale |
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Import |
Bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale |
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Favorable Balance of Trade |
One of the goals of mercantilism when countries regulated and controlled trade |
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Colonies |
Groups of people who make things for the King Allowed countries to have a favorable balance of trade |
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Raw Materials |
unfinished work |
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Tariff |
Territory |
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Mercantilism |
Buying things from other countries |
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Buillon |
Gold |
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Merchant |
Sells things to other people |
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Caravel |
Ship Design |
