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Chapter 1 Flashcards

I. Changes in the Old World II. Contacts in the New World

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Marco Polo

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Italian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China.

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Caravel

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Swift Portugese ship with 2-3 triangular sails

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Merchantilism

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  • Economic system designed to enhance the wealth and power of a nation
  • Wealth determined by precious metals ie. gold and silver
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Bartolomeu Dias

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  • Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa

- Cape of Good Hope

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese explorer who reached India by sailing around the tip of Africa.

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian-born (Portuguese) explorer who thought he had discovered Asia but discovered the Americas instead
called the people “Indians”

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Sailed to West Indies and South America

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John Cabot

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English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.

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Circumnavigate

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to sail completely around the world

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Martin Luther

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Founder of Protestantism

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Protestant Reformation

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Movement that pressed for changes in the Roman Catholic Church and society

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John Calvin

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Geneva’s (Switzerland) most influential teacher

reorganized the educational systems

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Bering Strait

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waterway between Asia and North America thought to be the passage that brought the ancestors of the American Indians to the Western Hemisphere

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Pueblo Indians

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  • 1st group of Indians the Spanish encountered

- Grew corn mainly

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Mound Builders

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native american civilizations of the eastern region of north america that created distinctive earthen works that served as elaborate burial places

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Eastern Woodland Indians

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The group of Indian tribes that occupied the whole East Coast of North America.

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Hernando Cortes

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

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Conquistador

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Spanish conqueror

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Montezuma

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Aztec emperor

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Francsico de Coronado

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Looked for the Seven Cities of Gold but found the Grand Canyon instead

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the “Fountain of Youth”

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St. Augustine

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1st colony in Florida set up by Spain

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Hernando de Soto

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Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain

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Philip II

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Spanish Catholic king who crushed Protestantism

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Sir Fancis Drake

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  • Sea Dog

- Defeated the Spanish Armada

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Elizabeth I

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English Queen and politique who united Protestants and Catholics through compromise

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Sea Dogs

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English pirates

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Spanish Armada

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The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588
defeated by Sir Francis Drake

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Walter Raleigh

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Landed in Virginia and settled on Roanoke Island

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Roanoke Island

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Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580s

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Lost Colony

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Roanoke Island

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New France

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Henry Hudson

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discovered and claimed New Netherlands for the Dutch

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New Netherland

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What European nation discovered a sea route to Asia?

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What movement in the 1500s was caused by Europe’s rediscovery of the Biblical truth?

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Protestant Reformation

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What merchants controlled the overland routes to Asia threatening safety and leading to Europeans looking for another way to the East?

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What monarch sponsored Columbus’ first expedition?

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The most significant fact about John Cabot’s voyages was that he

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Claimed land in North America for England

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Magellan

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was killed in the Philippines

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How did the Protestant Reformation encourage settlement of the New World?

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Protestants went to the New World to escape from persecution

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During the 16th century, which country dominated exploration of the New World?

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The Aztecs were a highly civilized Indian culture in

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The Indian population in the New World dropped from 50M to 4M in about one century primarily because of

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Diseases brought by Europeans

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In 1493 Pope Alexander VI divided the world for purposes of settlement and exploration between Portugal and

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not bring an end to

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The power of the Roman Catholic Church

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What was the dividing line Pope Alexander VI drew up to separate the exploration of the world between Spain and Portugal?

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Line of Demarcation

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What early Native American tribe lived in caves along the rims and ledges of canyons of the southwest United States?

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Pueblo Indians

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What did the French call their colony in Canada?

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New France

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What important river did Hernando de Soto discover?

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Mississippi River

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Spanish settlers in the New World practiced what religion?

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Roman Catholicism

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For whom was the New World named?

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Amerigo Vespucci

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The famous work Description of the World was about whose adventures?

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Marco Polo

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What title was given to the daring Spanish soldiers/explorers?

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Conquistadors

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