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Chapter 6 Flashcards

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The treaty separating Spain & Portugal

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Treaty or tordesellias

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Who established the line of demarcation?

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Pope Alexander the 6th

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What was the name of the set of principals that dominated the economic thought in the 17th century?

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Mercantilism

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Who went to their grave believe they found India when really they found the Americas?

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Christopher Columbus

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What circumnavigated the world in 1520?

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Ferdinand Magellan

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The journey of the slaves from Africa to the Americas

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The middle passage

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The right of the Spanish settlers to use Native Americans as laborers

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Encomienda system

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The Italian seaman who discovered the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola

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Christopher Columbus

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Extremely profitable item from Asia

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Spice

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Explorer who discovered Mexico in 1519

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Hernando Cortez

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Vasco de Gama discovery of a route to India by sea resulted in what

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Several thousand percent profit

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The Dutch tried to dominate the Clive trade by

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Limiting clove sale to one island and controlling the trading

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Why’s society of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than any other in the continent of Africa

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Ibo

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Originally slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the what?

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Sugar cane plantations

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What were the Moluccas know to the Europeans as the what

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Spice islands

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What did the treaty of Tordesillas in1494 establish?

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Spain = new world 
Portugal = Brazil and control trading in Africa and in Asia
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According to mercantilists the prosperity of the nation is dependent on what?

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Bullion gold and silver

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Triangular trade

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Europe > Africa (guns tools clothes) Africa > Americas (slaves) Americas > Europe (sugar tobacco cotton)

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Highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore the west African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean

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Caravel

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A navigational instrument that measures direction in a frame of reference that is stationary relative to the surface of the earth

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Compass

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Explorer who discovered Florida in 1513

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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African society that was ruined because of the slave trade

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Congo (Benin)

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Explorer who do covered the cape of good hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488

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Bartoleu Dias

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Explorer who discovered the South American coast line in 1499

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Explored New England coastline of the Americas

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John Cabot

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Explored who discovered Peru in 1531

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Francisco Pizarro

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To Portuguese explorers tag southern coast of west Africa became known as the what?

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Gold Coast

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Sailors who coils calculate their location based on the position of the sun and stars in relation to the horizon

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The astrolabe

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Which Native American civilization did Pizarro conquer?

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The incas

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Who was the leader at yeah riel of Cortes’ arrival?

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Montazuma

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How did the Renaissance contribute to the age of exploration?

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By awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe.

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The 3 G’s

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God Gold Glory

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Who circumnavigated the the world?

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Ferdinand Magellan

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What was a conquistador

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Magellan

Vasco de Gama

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Which of the following explores was the first to sail around Africa to India?

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Vasco de Gama

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Ferdinand and Isabella financed the Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria for which explorer?

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Christopher Columbus

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What narrow strip of land separated the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

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String of Magellan

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The global transfer of plant, animals, disease, and food between Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration

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Colombian exchange

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What does circumnavigate mean?

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To travel around the entire globe.

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