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Native Empires in South America

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Mayans - Guatemala, Yucatan, Belize
Aztecs - Mexico
Incas - Peru, South America

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Bering Strait

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Land bridge that Asians crossed to get the Americas thousands of years ago

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Scientific Revolution

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An era of technological advances in Europe that led to increased exploration
Compass
Sextant
Mapmaking
Shipbuilding
Printing press
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Ferdinand and Isabella

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King and queen of Spain who funded Columbus’s voyage

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Protestant Reformation

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A break from the Catholic Church, motivated Christians to spread their religion to the New World

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese monarch

Sponsored voyages that went around Africa to get to India and Asia

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese explorer

First to reach Asia using the Cape Good Hope route that went around South Africa

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Christopher Columbus

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First explorer to establish a permanent settlement in the New World and make contact with the natives

Landed on island in the Bahamas

Following voyages yielded little success

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Columbian Exchange

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An exchange of diseases, crops, animals, and plants between the New World and Old World

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line of demarcation

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A line drawn by the Pope in 1493 that gave certain lands to Spain and others to Portugal

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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An agreement between Spain and Portugal to move the line of demarcation a few degrees to the west

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conquistadores

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Spanish explorers and conquerors

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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Conquistador

Crossed the isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Conquistador

First to circumnavigate the globe

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Hernan Cortes

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Conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain

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Francisco Pizarro

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Conquered the Incas and claimed South America

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encomienda system

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Spain’s system where the king would give land grants and native slaves to Spaniards

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asiento system

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The system the Spanish turned to after the native population was reduced

African slaves could be obtained by Spanish owners in exchange for a small tax

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