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the way goods were brought to the Middle East

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caravan

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made up of two countries; Spain & Portugal

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Iberian Peninsula

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an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing

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compass

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when sailor set the sail at an angle to the wind

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tacking

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a ship the Portuguese constructed, had large triangular sails

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caravel

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invention that let sailors find the angle of the sun on a particular day at a particular latitude

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quadrant

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measures distance from the equator

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latitude

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the first European to sail around Africa’s southern tip

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Bartolomeu Dias

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sailed in 1492, thought he was in the Indies, but discovered an island in America

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Christopher Columbus

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a leader in the Roman Catholic church

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bishop

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a German monk who brought change to the Roman Catholic Church

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Martin Luther

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New Amsterdam’s Governor in 1647

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Peter Stuyvesant

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A colony the English founded, but many of the colonists would not work

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Jamestown

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the chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeak Bay Area

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Powhatan

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made the colonists in Jamestown work in the fields

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John Smith

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chief Powhatan’s daughter, saved John Smith’s life

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Pocahontas

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person from Africa that agreed to work for a period of time to pay off a debt

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indentured servants

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wanted to change the church of England, didn’t think prayers should be read out of a book, but should come from the heart

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Puritians

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didn’t think the church of England would change, so they stared their own church

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separatists

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ship the Pilgrims used to sail across the Atlantic

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Mayflower

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the new rule of government in Plymouth

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Mayflower compact

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what the Pilgrims named their new colony

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Plymouth

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the first town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Salem

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