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The renaissance paved the way for an age of

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Exploration and discovery

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Which of these sailors landed in North America centuries before Columbus set sale

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The Vikings

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Marco Polo wrote an account of the marvels of

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Asia

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 which innovations did not contribute to the age of exploration

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Gothic cathedrals

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Columbus sailed to the Americas under the flag of

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Spain

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Which area was known as the Gold Coast

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Coast of west Africa

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 which country was the largest in the history of West Africa

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Songhai

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Why did the Portuguese want to explore the world?

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They need a new trade routes

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Where did Mansa Muse rule?

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Mali

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Which sailor was the first to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan’s crew

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Why did the Portugal begin building fortresses on the coast of West Africa in the 1400s and 1500s?

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To keep other European nations from growing rich from trade with African kingdom

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Why did Alexander Falconbridge believe the African slave trade was okay

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They believed the Africans did not have human feelings

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What is true about the Dahomey kingdom?

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They practice slavery

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Before the 1400s Africa was connected to Asia by trade network that

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Cross the Sahara

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Both the Dahomey and Asante cultures of West Africa

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Traded crops with peoples outside of West Africa

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How did West African kingdoms change as a result of the triangular trade network?

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there communities were destroyed by the sale of slaves to European traders

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Spanish conquistadors went to the Americas for which main purpose

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Gold

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18
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Which countries dominated colonization of South America in the 1600s

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Spain and Portugal

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What did the encomienda system do?

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Enslaved Native Americans

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Which factor most undermined Spanish efforts to enslave Native Americans

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Disease

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Which factor contributed most of the development of the system of indentured servitude in the English colonies of North America

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High unemployment in England

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What helped cultural interaction?

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The Columbian exchange

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Before the triangular trade system developed the Africans slave trade was mainly a result of

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Warfare in the African kingdoms

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How did Spanish missions become home to Native Americans?

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Missionaries hired Native Americans to work and gave them place to sleep and eat

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Why were horses significant to the plains Indians?

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Horses made it easier for the plains Indians to travel and search of Buffalo to hunt

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Which activity created the most equitable trade between native American and Europeans

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Fur trapping

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The system of indentured servitude begin as a solution to which problem

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Labor shortages in North America

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The system of triangle trade included, which of the following

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The export of precious metals from North America to Europe

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Which statement best describes the attitude of political leaders and medieval Europe towards the Catholic Church

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Resentful of its wealth and concerned about its power

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What resulted in Amergio Vespucci’s decision in 1498

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The naming of lands in the western hemisphere

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The voyages of exploration that lead Europeans discovery of the New World were first sponsored by

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The rulers of Spain in Portugal 

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The protestant reformation contributed to which action by the Catholic Church in the New World

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The church sponsored missionaries to travel to convert native Americans

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Which intellectual development took place during the renaissance

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A red discovery of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome

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Why was constantly unable to establish a colony in Florida?

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The local native Americans did not cooperate

35
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Who did the native Americans referred to as the governor?

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Hernando De Soto

36
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Where did Amergio Vespucci primarily explore?

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South American coast

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The voyages of Bartholomeu dias and Vasco de Gama were largely a result of Portugal desire

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To find an all sea trade route to Asia

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Why did Henry Hudson choose to explore North America rather than South America?

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To decrease tensions with Spain

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Balboa was the first European to do, which of the following

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Cross the isthmus of Panama

40
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Where did Christopher Columbus’s first voyage land?

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Hispaniola

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Why did Magellan crew continue to sail after his death?

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They had no choice

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Advances in time measurement helped enable transalantic voyages because Marin is who could accurately measure time were able to

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Use the position of the sun to determine their ships position

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Based on the timeline events in which year, let the king of England to sponsor explorations by Giovanni Coboto, also known as John Cabot

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1453

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 what was the name of Marco Polo’s book and what was it about?

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Marco Polo’s book was called expanding horizons and was about his travels to Asia

45
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What were some of the major trade centers in Europe?

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Venice, Genoa and Pisa

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What was the Renaissance?

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A period of renewed interest in classical Greek in Roman learning throughout Europe in the 1400s

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How did the development of nation states lead to exploration?

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The monarch wanted more power and wealth

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How to technology help further exploration

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The astrolabe encompass helps navigators more accurately, determine direction and location

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What were the three largest west African kingdoms?

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Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

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Ghana

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Huge trading empire between 400 and 1100, it’s trading gold and salt contributed to its prosperity 

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Mali

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Import Islamic centers. Mansa Musa was considered the greatest king who made a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Muslim holy city

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Songhai

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Rose in the late 1400s and became the largest in the history of West Africa. Its ruler, Askia Muhammad encourage trade with Europe and Asia, and introduced its country illegal system. The empire fell in the late 1500s.

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Who were the early leaders in exploration and what were they trying to accomplish?

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The Portuguese were trying to find a route to China and India

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What did Prince Henry the navigator do?

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Set up a center for exploration, so scientist can share their knowledge with ship builders and sailors

55
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Where did early Portuguese explorers sail?

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The south coast of West Africa

56
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Who were believed to be the first Europeans to reach North America and when

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The Vikings and the 800s and 900s

57
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Who sponsored Columbus on his first voyage

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 queen, Isabella, and King Ferdinand

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Where did Columbus believe he sailed to first

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The east Indies

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Where did Columbus explore on his subsequent voyages?

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Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica

60
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What is the treaty of tordesillas

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Treaty signed by Spain, and Portugal basically saying Spain got the land west of the line and Portugal got the land east of it

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What did Amergio Vespucci do?

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Mapped South America’s coastline in 1499

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Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan’s crew in 1519

63
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Who captured the Aztec

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Hernan Cortes

64
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Who captured the Inca

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Francisco Pizarro

65
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What was Ponce de Leon looking for

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Fountain of youth

66
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Where did Alvar Cabeza de Vaca and Panfilo de Narváez explore

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Florida and the coast of Mexico

67
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Where did Hernando de Soto explore

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South eastern region of North America

68
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Where did Coronado explore and what was he looking for

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Modern day Mexico and Arizona looking for gold

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What were the three kinds of settlements the Spanish established in the americas

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Pueblos, missions, and presidos

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What were the 5 social classes

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Peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, native Americans, and enslaved Africans

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What was the encomienda system

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A system that enslaved Africans

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Who fought against the encomienda system

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Bartolomé de las casas, a priest

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Why did the Spanish bring Africans to the americas

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To work on plantations

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What movement did Martin Luther king begin

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The Protestant reformation

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John Cabot

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Landed on the coast in Newfoundland in 1497 allowing England to create claims for North America

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Giovanni de Verrazano

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Explored for France in 1524, exploring the coast of North America from present day Nova Scotia south to the Carolinas

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Jacques Cartier

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Sailed for France and sailed up the St. Lawrence river and founded modern day Montreal

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Henry Hudson

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Sailed for the Dutch discovering the Hudson River in 1609. Sailed as far north as Albany. Discovered the Hudson Bay in 1610 thinking he reached the Pacific Ocean

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Samuel de Champlain

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Established a trading post for fur trading in Quebec and other parts of Canada. The Dutch established trading post along the Hudson

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What was the Colombian exchange

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Between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americans, people transferred plants, diseases, and animals

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