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Unit 3 Review Flashcards

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How many times did Columbus sail to the New World?

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Four

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How did many Native Americans die during the Age of Exploration?

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Smallpox and other diseases

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Caravel

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A small, fast ship

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What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

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Spain

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Where did Columbus first take foot in the New World?

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Bahamas

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Capturing or taking something by force

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Conquest

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What group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?

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Vikings

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Who claimed the southwestern United States for Spain?

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Coronado

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In 1534, which French navigator sailed inland along the St. Lawrence River and claimed much of eastern Canada for France?

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Cartier

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The art and science of mapmaking is called…

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Cartography

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What was Christopher Columbus’ purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?

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Find a faster and safer trading route to Asia

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How did diseases impact the New World?

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Wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people

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Conquistadors is a Spanish word for…

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Conquerors

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What were the 3 G’s of Exploration?

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Gold, Glory and God

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In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by rounding the tip of Africa and landing on India’s southwest coast?

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Vasco da Gama

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Circumnavigation

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To sail or travel all the way around the world

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Columbian Exchange

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Widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, technology, diseases, etc. between the Old World (Europe) and New World (the Americas).

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Italian explorer and navigator; the Americas were named after him

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Silk Road

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A network of trade routes connecting China and Europe

20
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Monopoly

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Complete economic control of a business or product; this would keep other countries from participating in the Asian trade; would become a cause for the Age of Exploration

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Feudalism

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System of government that was developed to ward off repeated invasions; people would pledge loyalty to Lords or Nobles for protection

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Northwest Passage

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A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for, hoping that it would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

23
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Circumnavigation

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To sail completely around the globe

24
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Fountain of Youth

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A spring that keeps the youth of anyone that drinks from it or bathes in it; a myth that came up during the Age of Exploration

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Seven Cities of Gold

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Also known as the “Seven Cities of Cibola”; a myth that became popular during the Age of Exploration; motivation for many explorers

26
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Feudal System Social Order (Pyramid)

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King - Noble/Lord - Knight - Serf/Peasant

27
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Who was Erik the Red?

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Sailed to Greenland; named it “Greenland” to attract farmers

28
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Who was Leif Eriksson?

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Son of Erik the Red; in 1001, sailed West to find new land and landed in Vinland (now=Newfoundland, Canada)

29
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Portuguese navigator that tried sailing around Africa but only made it to the Southern tip, calling it the Cape of Good Hope

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Bartolomeu Dias

30
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(Spain) First European to see the Pacific Ocean, his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

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(Spain) Conquered the Inca Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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(Spain) Responsible for the fall of Tenochtitlan (the Aztec Empire)

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Hernan Cortes

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(Dutch English) First European to explore Arctic Ocean, discovered what is now the Hudson Bay & River, in search of Northwest Passage

A

Henry Hudson

34
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(Spain) First European to cross the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

35
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Why did Columbus call the Taino people “Indians”?

A

He believed that he landed in the Indies

36
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Where did the Vikings come from?

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Denmark, Sweden, Norway (Scandinavia)

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