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Exploration And Early Civilization Flashcards

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Henry Hudson

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Explored what would later be named the Hudson River.
Many voyages before that were unsuccessful. Dutch grew interested and he reached New York
Founded the North West Passage

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Hernando Cortez

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Captured and defeated the Aztecs

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Henry the Navigator

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First to suggest a route around Africa to Asia

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Francisco Pizaro

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Conquered and defeated the Inca’s in Peru

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Bartholamew Diaz and Vasco da Gama

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First to sail around Africa to India

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Arrives in New Amsterdam as governor of New Netherland

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Conquistadors

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Conquerers

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Columbian Exchange

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The exchange from goods in the new world to the new world and from the new world to the old world

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Age of Discovery

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The time with the European countries sent out and sponsored searches

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Colony

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An area of land that is being controlled by another area of land

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Crusades

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Holy wars

Religious wars which expose Europeans to riches of Asia

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Northwest Passage

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Water route through or around North America

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Primary source

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A written source from the perspective of a witness or the actual person

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Middle Passage

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500 A.D.- 1350 AD

Where slaves where brought from Africa to the English colonies against their will.

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The three Gs

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Gold
Glory
God

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Patroon system of landownership

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It was from new Netherlands and any member of the company who paid to bring over 50 settlers with in four years could have a large tract of land

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Printing Press

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A new invention to type with

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Renaissance

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Rebirth of classical learning. Quest for knowledge

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Missionaries

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Traveling priests spreading Christianity

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Causes of exploration

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Empires wanting more power and riches. Empires wanting everyone to believe in their religion.

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Countries that colonized in North and South America

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France, Spain, Netherlands (Dutch), Portugal: England

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French, Spanish, and Dutch settlement and colonization locations

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French: Mississippi River
St. Laurence River
St. Laurence
Quebec
Champlain River
Spain: West Indies 
Central America 
Mexico
South west America 
Netherlands: New York River 
New Amsterdam 
England: Newfoundland
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Cristopher Columbus

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Lands in West Indies and claims it for Spain

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New inventions

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Caravan astrolabe printing press magnetic compass

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Portugal

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Sailed around Africa to get to Asia

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Long term effects from the age of discovery

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Natives and slaves died from diseases

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Exchanges

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Ideas food diseases

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Feudalism

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A system is in which land is exchange for service or protection characteristic of life in the Middle Ages

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Social classes

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Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Natives/Africans/slaves

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Peter Minuit

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Dutch colonial governor in America how to establish new Amsterdam

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New Spain

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Made a profit from mining and farming

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New Netherlands

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Patroon
Manhattan island
Peter minuet Founded Manhattan Island
Peter Stuvynstey
Claimed Hudson
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New France

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Missionaries

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