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European Exploration #1 Flashcards

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Prince Henry

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Ceuta in North Africa

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Bartolomeu Dias

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South East Coast of Africa

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Vasco da Gama

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East African Coast and Southwestern Coast of India (Calicut)

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Christopher Columbus

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San Salvador (island) in Bahamas, Eastern Central America and Northern South America

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5
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Ferdinand Magellan

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Philippines in Asia

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Pedro Álvares Cabral

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Modern Day Brazil in South America

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Eastern Coast of South America

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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Modern Day Panama in Central America

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Hernando Cortés

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México, Caribbean islands, United States

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Francisco Pizarro

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Peru (Cuzco) in South America

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Juan Ponce de León

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Modern Day Florida in North America

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Vásquez de Coronado

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Present Day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in north America

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Giovanni da Verrazzano

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New York Harbor in North America

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Frenchman Jacques Cartier

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Eastern Coast of Canada and Montreal in North America

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Samuel de Champlain

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Quebec (Canada) in North America

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England

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Massachusetts and Virginia

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France

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New York, Great Lakes and Canada

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Portugal

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Africa, India, Brazil, Spice islands, Cape of Good Hope, England and Indonesia

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Dutch Netherlands

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Cape of Good Hope, New York, Albany and Manhattan Island and Indonesia

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Spain

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Caribbean Islands, Spice Islands, Philippines, Florida, San Salvador, Isthmus of Panama, Peru and Chile, New Mexico and Texas and Argentina

21
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Incas

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Francisco Pizarro

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Aztecs

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Hernando Cortez

23
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The challenges that explorers faced on their expeditions, foods they ate, etc.

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Storms, wind, sea, diseases (sickness or virus), injuries, navigation, starvation. Salted Meat, water, beer, hardtack (crackers), dry goods (oatmeal), butter and things that would never go bad.

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Whether or not the interactions between indigenous people and the European explorers were positive or negative, and why.

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The interactions between indigenous people and the European explorers were negative because the explorers colonized in a very harsh manner, would kill, lie, manipulate and would make them lose their culture or would just end it for good. To gain land they would force religion, spread diseases that would wipe out population,

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India

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Spices, rare silks, gems

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South America

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Gold and Silver, copper, sugar

27
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North America

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gold, tabaco

28
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Africa

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Ivory and gold, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, silver and jewels.

29
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Central America

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Gold and silver

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