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1
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what age was the year 1200

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the middle age

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what was the atlantic world and what countries/ continents were involved

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relationship between the people of the americas, Europe and africa

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does the atlantic world exist before 1400s

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no

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what did people think the shape of the world was

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they knew it wasn’t flat

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who was Muhammaed Al Idrisi and why was he important

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  • drew an accurate map but it wasn’t oriented the right way
  • he doesn’t know how far north or south africa is
  • represents what the world would look like in Mediterranean mind
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what was so important about Venice

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  1. few places that kept trade after the fall of the roman empire
  2. city is surrounded by water and it was all connected
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in the roman empire, why was everything so accessible

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everything was connected by sea and there were multiple water ways

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who was marco polo (1254-1324)

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  • son of a venetian merchant
  • famous for crossing from venice —-> china on the silkroad
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what was the silk road

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label for all commercial connections
- it was not just one road

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what was the venetian-genoese war about

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  • fought over trade and trade routes
  • the war lasted from 1256-1381 and macro polo was captured during that time
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what did marco polo do when he was in jail

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-share his stories w/ Rusticello da piza
- that is where the journals of macro polo came from
- most famous copied document at the time

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who was Mansa musa I

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  • mali emperor
  • mali empire was wealthy and big
  • trade groups and gold
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who did mansa musa trade with

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northern african merchants because he noticed they had large amounts or gold

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what happens when mansa goes to mecca

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  • slaves and people accompany him
  • goes to cairo
    -gave away so much gold that the value of gold decreased in cairo
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what is the catalan atlas map

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  • enormous map
  • map that showed the story of the world
  • included the stories of macro polo and other famous stories
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what was the catalan atlas map used for

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not really for traders but for kings/ rulers

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what was the effect of the catalan atlas map

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made people want to wander and to go find stuff

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what was the second roman empire called and who was the ruler

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Constantinople
constantine the great

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where was constantinople built on

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byzantium/ byzantine empire

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what was a flaw of constantinople

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frontier didn’t have a lot of protection, and that is what led to its downfall

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what caused the byzantine empire/ constantinople to shrink

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the pressure of the turks and the ottoman empire

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what was the importance of constantinople

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it was the doorway to the east of rome

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who was Mehmed the second

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  • conquered and layed seige on constantinople
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24
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what happens as constantinople falls

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doorway to the east falls
- constantinople is named Istanbul

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what were the ottoman- venetian wars

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  • ## conflicts betwen the ottoman empire and the republic of venice
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where is portugal located at this time 1500

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it is a kingdom in the Iberian peninsula

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why is portugual important

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it is the first place we see that does not have a Mediterranean peninsula

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28
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where is the wealth in the eastern Mediterranean

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venice+ genova

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what famous navigator comes out of Portugal and what does he want to do

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prince henry the naviagtor, wants to push for private industry

30
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what did venice and genova build that could help their economy

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  • a trading outpost
  • ## genoese built the fort @ the outpost to protect themselves
31
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what effect did the collapse of the maritime cities have on henry the navigator

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he saw it as an opportunity to explore more of the atlantic

32
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At this time what religion was present in northern africa

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islam

33
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what did christians at this time period want to do to countries that had Islamic influences

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they wanted to bypass them

34
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what is happening with portuguese ships in the 1400s

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started getting closer to africa

35
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what did islands represent to naviagtors

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Safety and navigatinal aide because it means that they were close to land

36
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what were the canary islands

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1st set of islands that Portugal then Spain came to

37
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what was important to remeber about the canary current

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current is strong and the current takes a hard right so navigators like to avoid it
- makes moving down south difficult

38
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what coast does Portugal go down

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the portugal coast

39
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what does extration evolve from

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from gold to slaves

40
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what was el mina

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portuguese name for the mine
- used as an outpost and for gold repositing

41
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what happened to el mina in 1637

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the dutch captured it

42
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what was a weakness of el mina

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it wasn’t bulilt as a defense outpost

43
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where is elmina now

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in present day ghana

44
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what country did most of the portuguese get their slaves

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angola

45
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what did the portuguese need slaves for

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The cultivation of sugar

46
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why was sugar so important

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it was more profitable than gold

47
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who was Batolomium Diaz

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  • came back to portgual saying he found the bottom of Africa
  • cape of good hope
48
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why was finding the cape of good hope important

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it means that they could find a quicker way to asia

49
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why did the want to get to china by water

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because it had good trading advantage

50
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who was christoper colombus

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  • kid that was born during the ottoman Constantinople wars
  • born genoese
51
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what did christoher always want to be

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  • a sailor but his father wanted him to be in the family cloth business
52
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how did christopher get to sail

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he would sign up for different sailing positions

53
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who inspired christopher coloumbus

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the stories of marco polo and he even carried his book with him

54
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at this time what was the portuguese interested in about in africa

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their gold

55
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who was ferdinand and isabella

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  • king and queen of spain
  • both were heads of the royal family and when they married it was very powerful
    -conquered the last Islamic place
56
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what was the reconquista

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spain takes back their land from islamic forces

57
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who was paolo Toscanellidal Pozzo

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  • mathmatician and map maker who believed he had the right map of the world
  • believed that everyone did not know the size of the earth
58
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what was wrong with pozzo’s map

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missing north,central, and south america

59
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how many ships does ferdinand and isabella give colombus

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3 ships because they wanted to bring wealth into the system

60
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what did colombus tell ferdinand and isabelle he was going to accomplish

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finding a quicker way to china

61
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what is the difference between sustainable vs. extractable

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  • sustainable: long term availability to resources
  • extractable- withdrawing materials from the earth
62
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what country did spain want to tap into

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china

63
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what were the names of the 3 ships that colombus sailed in

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nina, pinta, santa maria

64
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where did colombus think he landed and where did he actually land

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india
bahamas

65
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what was the type of map that colombus usd

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tasconelly map

66
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what was the perspective of colombus after interacting with the natives

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they thought he was cruel and that he was becoming a tyrant

67
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what was constructed in 1914

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the panama canal

68
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what country established themselves on the west coast of africa

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portugal

69
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what was the treaty of Tordesillas

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agreement between Spain and portugal that split the cape verde in Africa and land west of the line was spain and land east of the line was for portugal

70
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who discovered the trade winds and how did they do it

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portugal
sailing in the south atlantic

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