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32 Cards in this Set
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Who controlled the spice trade in Asia and Europe?
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Arab and Venetian merchants
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Circling of the globe
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circumnavigation
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Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?
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Magellan
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Which society invented the compass?
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china
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Discoveries of Prince Henry later became the foundation for what?
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Portugese Empire
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Strait at the bottom of s. america?
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strait of magellan
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Portugal's main interests?
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Africa, Asia, trade
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Who introduced the grid system of map references?
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Ptolemy
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Where did Vasco de Gama sail to?
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India- Calicut
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What was the southern tip of Africa calleD?
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Cape of Good Hope
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Who brought together mapmakers, mathematicians, astronomers, etc to study navigation?
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Was Vasco de Gama successful?
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no
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Why did Europeans start looking for sea routes to Asia?
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Mongols couldn't guarentee safe passage on overland routes
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What did Vasco de Gama find in Calicut?
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Hindus and Muslims trading silk, procelain, and spices
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Where did Columbus explore?
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Hispaniola, Cuba
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New triangle-shaped lateen sails perfected by the Arabs did what?
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ships could sail against the wind
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1400s- European ship that incorporated all new naval improvements called what?
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caravel
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Purpose of spices?
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flavor/preserve meat, perfumes, cosmetics and medicine
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Open-water ocean sailing required ships to do what that hadn't been done before?
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left the coastline
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1400s- Spain entered the race for Asian riches by backing the expeditions of who?
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Columbus
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In 1507, who suggested that Columbus had actually discovered a new world?
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amerigo vespucci
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Mapmakers
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cartographers
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What did Dias's voyage prove?
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ships could reach asia by sailing around africa
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Who discovered the southern tip of Africa?
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Barthologmeu Dias
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Who renamed the south sea to pacific ocean?
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magellan
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1300s- Europeans depended on what from Asia and India?
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spices
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Who discovered the Pacific ocean?
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Balboa
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1519- who wanted to find a west. route to Asia and faced mutany, found a strait, etc?
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Magellan
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1493- pope drew this imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic (spain had west, portugal had east).
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line of demarcation
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What did Portugal and Spain sign to move the line of demarcation farther west?
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treaty of tordesillas
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Who perfected the astrolabe?
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Arabs
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1400s- explorers left because of what?
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desire for gold, glory and spreading religion
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