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35 Cards in this Set
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Cabot |
Italian who explored Newfoundland for England |
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Columbus |
discovered the West Indies (Caribbean Sea) |
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Coronado |
explored the southwestern section of America; his men discovered the Grand Canyon |
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Cortes |
defeated the Aztecs in Mexico |
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Dias |
first to round the Cape of Good Hope (the tip of Africa) |
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Hudson |
explored the New York area for the Netherlands |
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La Salle |
claimed the Mississippi Valley for France |
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Magellan |
first man to circumnavigate the world |
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Marco Polo |
Italian who journeyed for four years to get to China |
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Marquette and Joliet |
explored the upper Mississippi River for France |
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Pizarro |
defeated the Incas in Peru |
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Prince Henry the Navigator |
principal goal wa to circumnavigate Africa |
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Da Gama |
his expedition around the Cape of Good Hope to India gave Portugal a lucrative spice trade with India |
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Mayan |
highly advanced Indian civilization that flourished in the Yucatan Peninsula from the fourth through the tenth centuries |
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Aztec |
Indian group that founded the walled city of Tenochtitlan |
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las Casas |
the Roman Catholic friar who opposed the cruel treatment of the Indians by his fellow Spaniards in the New World |
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de Soto |
discovered the Mississippi River |
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Cartier |
the first great French explorer in the New World |
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Champlain |
the Father of New France and the founder of Quebec |
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Jamestown |
the first permanent English colony in America |
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mercantilism |
the dominant economic system of the Age of Exploration |
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British East India Company |
a very successful point-stock company |
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latitude |
term used to indicate the distance an object is from the equator |
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caravel |
fast vessel of the fifteenth century which aided ocean travel |
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Line of Demarcation |
line running north and south down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that divided the world between Spain and Portugal |
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circumnavigation |
a voyage around the earth |
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conquistadors |
Spanish "conquerors" |
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capitalism |
economic system that advances wealth mainly through investments |
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capital |
term that refers to a supply of money |
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Who had a monopoly on the trade routes leading to the Orient? |
the Italians |
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Which two countries divided the world between them using the Line of Demarcation? |
Portugal and Spain |
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What was the Spanish conquistador's main advantage over the natives of the New World? |
horse and firearm |
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What was a major reason for the decline of Portugal as a great power? |
the inability to adequately defend and administer so vast an empire |
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Why did the Dutch establish a colony at Cape Town? |
for the purpose of supplying ships |
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What new navigational instruments aided the explorers in their travels? |
the compass, the astrolabe, the quadrant and the cross-staff |
