Explorers Flashcards

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Marco polo

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An explorer who traveled to the Chinese court

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The travels

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An account of Marco polos travels

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Hernan Cortes

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The Spanish conqueror of Mexico

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Portugal

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A place in Europe leading exploration

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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The person who sponsored Portuguese exploration

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Bartholomeu Días

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An explorer who found the “Cape of Good Hope”

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Cape of Good Hope

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A place found by Dias

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Vasco da Gama

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An explorer who cut around to cape of good hope to get to India

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Port of Calicut

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A place in india that Gama discovered

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Afonso de Albuquerque

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A general who made a port at Goa

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Goa

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A place in West India with a port

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Melaka

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A spice trade port in the Malay Peninsula

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Christopher Columbus

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The Spanish explorer who discovered America

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Cuba

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A place Columbus explored

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Ferdinand Magellan

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An explorer who journaled through the West hemisphere for Asia

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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A treaty designating certain “new lands” to certain countries

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John Cabot

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A Venetian who explored USA’s east coast

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New World

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The word for the American

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Conquistadors

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Spanish explorers of America

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Aztec

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Natives who rules most of Mexico

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Tenochtitlan

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The place the Aztec king lived

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Montezuma

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The leader of the Aztecs

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Francisco Pizarro

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A man who conquered the Incas

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Lima

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Place where Incas lived

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Encomienda
The right to use natives as a land owner
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Colombian Exchange
The exchange of plants and animals from Europe to America
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East India Company
A Dutch company trading with Indian (competed with English and Portuguese)
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West India Company
A Dutch compact trading with Indians (competed with Portuguese and Spanish)
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Samuel de Champlain
Founded Quebec: first French settlement in the Americas
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Commercial capitalism
A step in making a world economy
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World economy
The economic state of the world
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Colony
A new settlement of people in a new area
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Mercantilism
A principal of economic thought
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Balance of trade
The difference in the value of the imports/exports of a country over time
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Subsidies
Payments
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Came sugar
Crop from, southwest Asia
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Plantations
Large agricultural estates
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Triangle trade
The trade way of slaves
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Middle Passage
Trade pattern connecting Europe, Africa, and America
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King Afonso
The king of portugal
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Benin
A society pulled into the slave trade
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Brazil
A place dominated by Protugal
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Peninsulares
Spanish and Portuguese officials born in Europe in Government positioms
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Creoles
People below peninsulares, controlled land/business, born in Latin america from Europeans
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Mestizos
Children of Europeans and Natives
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Mulattoes
Children of Africans and Europeans
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Encomienda system
When natives were forced to do labor for Spanish land owners
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Mita
When natives were drafted to coal mines
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Viceroy
High ups who governed a place for a king