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European Expansion Flashcards

1
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Countries led way

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Spain + Portugal

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Columbus land first

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Haiti-santo domingue

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Magellan

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Sail around world circumnavigation

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Columbian exchange

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Transfer of foods, products

2 hemispheres

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Triangular trade

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Americas, Europe, + Africa (trade) raw materials, goods, slaves

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Slavery

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Africa, war captives

Middle passage

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7
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Circumnavigate globe

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Sir Francis drake

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Istanbul

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Constantinople renamed this when taken over by ottoman Turks

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Taj Mahal

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Built by Indian pince for wife in Mughal India

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Isaac Newton

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Explained planetary orbit through law of gravitation

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Peter the great

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Russian ruler who attempted to westernize Russia. St Petersburg=power

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Mercantilism

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County’s power relies on wealth

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Johannes Kepler

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Planets travel in elliptical oval. Support to heliocentric theory.

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Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who conquered Incan empire in Andes mountains

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Helicoentric

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Sun in center and planets revolved around it

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Byzantine empire

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In Constantinople taken over by Turks

17
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Asia minors

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In Asia occupied by ottoman Turks

18
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Triangle trade

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Americas, Europe, and Africa. Americas=sugar, tobacco, corn, potatoes. Africa’s=slaves, ivory, gold. Europe=guns and manufactured goods

19
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Middle passage

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Part of triangle trade between Africa and Americas = slaves in ships over Atlantic Ocean to Americas

20
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Islam

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Religion unifying force of Ottoman Empire that accepted other religions

21
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Shogun

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Military ruler in Japan

22
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Cortez

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Spanish conquistador who conquered Aztec empire in modern day Mexico

23
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Corps mucus

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Created heliocentric theory (polish)

24
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Prince Henry

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Setup school of navigation in Portugal

25
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Jacques Cartier

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French explorer who claimed Canada for France “New France”

26
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Galileo

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Planetary motion through a telescope

27
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Commercial revolution

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European nations competed for over seas markets, colonies, imitated culture and social patterns

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