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Conquestor

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People who conquer land and go back home and report to their country

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circumnavigate

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explore around the world

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Missionaries

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people who converted to christianity

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Monopoly

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an unfair advantage over things and raising a cost of something

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Boers

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dutch farmers whom were very violent and racist

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Qing Dynasty

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started by Manchus

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Soverign

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full independent power

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Dutch East India Company

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possessed over the Mughal empire

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What did Europe provide for China

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christianity and the printing press

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What did China provide for Europe

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gold, silver and other metals

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Short Term Effects for Asia

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christianity grew, wealth and resources were harder to find, and loss of land and power.

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Line Of Demortation

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an imaginary line that the pop drew on the americas so portugal and spain didn’t go to war

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Cortes

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earliest, 1519 he arrived, created alliances with people, and tried to convert into christianity..tenochitian captial of aztec empire

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Moctezuma II

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aztec leader, sent cortes gifts to confuse him

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El Dorado

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gold city, a myth/legend

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Astroblabe

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science, navigation tools

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Caravel

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invented for longer distance, bigger boat

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Three countries that took over India

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Portugal, Dutch, England

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Island that Columbus named and discovered

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San Salvador

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Northern India

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Mughal

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Across from San Salvador

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Hisponia

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Pizarro is from

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Peru

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Boers came from

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Southern Africa

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Aztecs are in

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Mexico City

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Incas

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Peru

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Inflation

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Too much old, to high of prices

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Reason that Spain explored

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Draw attention from inquisition

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Reasons why Portugal explored

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Spice trade

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Reasons why England explored

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Religious freedom and spices

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Reasons why the Netherlands explored

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Spices and fourtune

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Where did Spain explore

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America’s and Philippines

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Where did Portugal explore

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Africa and India

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Where did England explore

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India and the 13 colonies

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Where did the Netherlands explore

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Columbus

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Spain, 1492 discovered America, first to want to circumnavigate

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Vaso da Gama

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Portugal 1488, discovered spice port called Calicut and sailed four ships around the cape of good hope

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Portugal, 1488 southern part of Africa (cape of good hope) and a path to Asia.

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Magellan

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Spain, 1519 FIRST to circumnavigate, coast of South America and created/named Strait of Magellan. Also named the pacific

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Allowed and sponsored Columbus to set sail

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Cortez

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Cuba, 1519 on coast of Mexico with 600 men 16 horses and cannons

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Matteo Ricci

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Travel missionary

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Pizarro

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Spain, 1532 reached Peru just after the civil war

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Cartography

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Map making

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Plantations

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Large esates were slaves worked

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Conquistadors

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Spanish explorers that settled

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Immunity

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A restince to dieases

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Encomiendas

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Forced labour for the Spanish

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Pyramid of Spain

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Penninsulares, Creoles, mestizos/mulattos, and native/African slaves

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Penninsulares

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People from orignially Spain, top dog, politics, power and money

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Creoles

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Fully Spanish, but born in the new world

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Mestizos

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Half Spanish, half native

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Mulattos

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Half Spanish, and half African

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Treaty of tordesillas

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Line between Portugal and Spain

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Middle passage

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A slave route from Africa to the new world

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Triangular trade

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ECONOMIC result

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Columbian exchange

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CULTURAL result

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TT: Europe to Africa

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TT: Africa to America

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Coffee, sugar, and horses

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TT: America to Europe

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Tomato, maize (corn), and potatoes

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Merchantilism

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Looking for gold, silver.. Only from their mother countries

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Epidemics

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Wide spread diease that affects a lot of people – small pox, plague

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Coretz and Aztecs

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Wanted to conquer the Aztecs for their gold

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Pizarro and the incas

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Conquistador in search for gold, incas had silver. Conquered that empire and sent back silver

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Competition between European powers

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Gold god and glory

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Dutch east India company

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Trading company made its own law and had sovereign powers

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