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45 Cards in this Set
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Magna Carta
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document containing the principle of law
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Black Death
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plague across Europe
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Clan
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A big group of families who worship a common deity and have common ancestors
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Aztecs
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las unified civilization in central mexico before Europeans
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Incas
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a small militaristic gruop whos empire was in Peru
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Western
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America and Europe (said to be more technological and civilized and developed)
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Bureacracies
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governments
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Southeast Asia
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located in the Indian Ocean (vietnam, taiwan, cambodia etc.)
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Bride Wealth
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a fee a groom pays to the bride that is in her control
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animism
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to believe that natural objects have spiritual powers
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matrilineal
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a womens line of descent
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reconnaissance
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observation to locate the region of an enemy
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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an explorer who sent annual expeditions down the western coast of Africa
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Vasco Da Gama
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Portuguese who reached India and returned to lisbon with smaples of indian wares
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galleys
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narrow open boats
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caravel
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a small, light, 3 masted sailing ship
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astrolabe
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an instrument used to determine the altitude of the sun, permitted marinners to plot their position north of sourht of the equator
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reconquista
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the christian reconquest of muslim areas
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age of commerce
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an age where all places trade with each other
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the rites controversy
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a dispute over a ritual between the jesuits and otehr roman catholic religious orders
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confucianism
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a system of philosophical and ethic teachings
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imperialism
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monarchal rule
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senegambia
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land in between the senegal and gambia rivers
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age grade systems
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groups of men and women which were initiated by society into adulthood at the same time
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king
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owrie shells
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shells imported for the indian ocean that served as teh medium of exchange
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abd
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and arab word meaning both black and slave
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shore trading
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where european ships sent boats ashore or invited african dealers to bring traders and slavers to the ships
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factory forts
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trading posts used to fend off rival Europeans
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trans saharan slave trade
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across africa and to inda lead by the berbers
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portugal
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a country in europe
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brazil
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linked to slave trade
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encomienda system
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the right to employ groups of Amerindinas for labor
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viceroyalties
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administrative divisions
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audiencia
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judges who served as an advisory council
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colonization
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people who take political control over peoples already living in this area
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the columbian exchange
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whne columbus came to south america to trade slaves
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cabeza de baca
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an explorer who was a friend of the native americans an was only exploring and not colonizeing
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frontier regions
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regions where two cultures meet
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