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The five countries that took an interest in exploration

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  1. Portugal
  2. Spain
  3. France
  4. England
  5. Dutch
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What term applies to the journey of the slaves from Africa to Americas?

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Middle Pasage

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What is an area in which a foreign country gains total control over a region and its population?

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colonies

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Who started a school of navigation to train sailors in Portugal?

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Prince Henry

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What continent was the greatest source of slaves for the slave trade of the 15th century?

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Africa

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What was the mark that divided the unexplored world between Spain and Portugal?

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Line of Demarcation

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What are the 3 reasons for exploration?

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  1. Glory
  2. God
  3. Gold
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What is the Spanish term for conqueror?

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conquistador

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What was a business organized by selling stock or shares in a company?

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joint stock company

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What two countries took the lead in exploration?

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  1. Portugal

2. Spain

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What is the extensive exchange of plants and animals between the New World and Old World?

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Colombian Exchange

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What is the economic theory state that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and in order to receive a large share of the wealth one country must take it away from another?

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mercantilism

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What are large agricultural estates?

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plantations

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What was the book written by Marco Polo about his experiences in the east?

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The Travels

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What was the treaty that was signed by Spain and Portugal to divide the world?

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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What is the idea of using Native Americans as laborers in the Spanish Empire?

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encomienda

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What term applies to selling more goods than a country bring in or importing less than they export?

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Balance of Trade

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What is the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the American continents?

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Triangular Trade

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What term applies to the part of the continent of Asia as distinguished from the peninsula and the island, and consists of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia?

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mainland states

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Who was responsible for Portugal making great gains in early exploration and establishing a trading empire?

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Prince Henry

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Who made four voyages to the New World for Spain and his discovery led to Spanish colonization?

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Christopher Columbus

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Who went looking for the Fountain of Youth and explored the area of Florida?

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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Who sailed for Portugal and sailed to the Cape of Good Hope and cut across the Indian Ocean and arrived at Calicut?

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Vasco de Gama

24
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Who was the ruler of the Congo who tried to convince the Portuguese to stop slave trade?

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King Alfonso

25
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Who founded Brazil for the Portuguese?

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Cabral

26
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Who started the first French settlement of Quebec?

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Champlain

27
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Who laid the first claim for the English in the New World by exploring the New England coast of America?

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John Cabot

28
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Who conquered the Incas?

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Pizarro

29
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What Spanish explorer when looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola and found the Grand Canyon?

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Coronado

30
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Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

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Magellan

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Who explored the American southeast for the Spanish?

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Hernado de Soto

32
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Who conquered the Aztecs?

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Cortes

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Who was the member of Magellan’s crew that completed the voyage?

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Cano

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Who ailed up the St. Lawrence River and explored the area of Eastern Canada for the French?

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Cartier

35
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Who explored and claimed California for the Spanish?

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Cabrillo

36
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Who explored for both the English and the Dutch?

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Henry Hudson

37
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Who financed the Columbus voyage?

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Queen Isabella

38
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Whose early travels to the East to the court of Kublai Khan sparked an interest in exploration?

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Marco Polo

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Who was the first Portuguese to sail to the tip of Africa and named the Cape of Good Hope?

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Bartholomeu Dias

40
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Who set up a port in Goa and helped Portugal to gain control of the spice trade between Asia and Europe?

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Admiral Albuquerque

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Who was the Italian mapmaker who sent along on some voyages and wrote letters and drew maps of the New World?

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Who laid the French claim in the New World when he explored the eastern coast of North America?

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Verrazano

43
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Who was the Spainard that explored in the Caribbean area and found the Great South Sea?

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Balboa

44
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Who explored the Great Lakes and claimed that area of the Mississippi River for the French?

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La Salle

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What was the name of the Dutch settlement in the New World?

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New Netherlands

46
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What were the two parts of the Spanish empire in the New World?

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  1. New Spain

2. Peru

47
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What are the three parts of the Portuguese Empire?

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  1. East
  2. New World
  3. Africa
48
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What was the main crop of early plantations?

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sugar cane

49
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What country created the largest empire in the New World?

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Spain

50
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What were the two areas in Africa where Europeans were able to make permanent settlements?

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  1. South Africa

2. Mozambique

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What were the four changes that led to exploration?

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  1. technology
  2. political change
  3. economic change
  4. social change
52
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What were the five reasons why people moved to the colonies?

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  1. better opportunities
  2. religious freedoms
  3. hardship in Europe
  4. spread Christianity
  5. adventure
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What are the three important parts of the Columbian Exchange?

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  1. introduction of horse to America
  2. exchange of crops
  3. introduction of European diseases to Native Americans
54
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Why did the Spanish Empire flourish?

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  1. well organized
  2. importance of Spain in Europe
  3. controlled Natives
55
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What were effects of slave trade?

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  1. depopulated areas of Africa
  2. took young and strongest men
  3. corrupted African cultures

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