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Age of exploration Flashcards

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Inca Empire

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Pacific coast, highlands of the Andes
Emperor Atahualpa
Conquered by Pizzaro

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Aztec Empire

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Mexico
Emperor Montezuma II
Conquered by Cortéz

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Mexico City

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Tenochtitlán

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The Aztecs thought Cortéz was…

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Quetzalcoatl

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Mayans

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Predated Aztecs

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Age of exploration aka…

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Age of Imperialism

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Motivator?

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MONEY

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Mercator projection

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Gerardus Mercator
Uses completely straight grid lines to make rectangles that grow larger at the poles
Allows for accurate compass bearings to be displayed
Distorts countries such as Greenland and Russia

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Robinson projection

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Curves edges and curved longitude lines

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Longitude lines

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Run North to South
Measure east to west

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Latitude lines

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Run East to West
measure north to south

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Conquistador ships

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caravels

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Caravel traits…

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Masts with interchangeable triangular and square sails
Lighter and faster
Keel, part that sticks down below the boat, balance and hydrodynamic
Portugese invention

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Science of map making

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Cartography

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Astrolabe

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An instrument to determine location using the positions of the stars
predecessor of the sextant
Was invented long ago but Europeans learned how to use it

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First person to round cape of good hope (previously cape of storms)

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Bartholemeau Diaz (1488)

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Cabral

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Portuguese sailor
Discovered brazil

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Vasco de Gama

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Portuguese
Found a route to India south of Africa

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Hernán Cortéz

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Spanish
Mutinied against the governor
Kidnapped king Montezuma II of the Aztecs and destroyed their empire
It was believed that he was Quetzalcoatl

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Pizarro

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Spanish
Read about Cortéz kidnapping the Aztec emperor and did the same to the Inca emperor, Atahualpa

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Cabot

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Italian but moved to England
Laid ground for british claim to Canada

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Jacque Cartier

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French
Explored Canadian coastlines
Atlantic coast rivers and St. Lawrence River
First land claims to Canada

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Balboa

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Spanish
First land claims of south America
Isthmus of Panama
Bay of San Migel and South Sea (pacific)
Kind to the native people, who guided him

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La encomienda

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A system of endentured servitude with native south americans

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Laws of the indies

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Native people that Columbus met

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Arawaks

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Treaty that defined brazil as portuguese by the pope

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Magellan

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Planned the voyage to circumnavigate the globe

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James Cook

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Claimed Australia, new zealand, and Borabora

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New Laws of the Indies

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Banned natives from being taken as slaves
Started the transatlantic slave trade

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Spanish rulers of american colonies

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Viceroys

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de las casas

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spanish missionary who opposed and doccumented the treatment of native people

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