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50 Cards in this Set
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Prester John
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Legend that told of a leader that ruled over a christian kingdom in the orient
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The Travels of John Mandeville
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An account of a man who traveled all around the known world
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Marco Polo
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The famous explorer that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.
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God Glory and Gold
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The three reasons for exploration or traveling to the new world
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Portolani
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The maps made by 14th and 15th century explorers. Depicted coastlines and harbors realistically
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Ptolemy's Geography
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A book that discussed the geography of the greco-roman world.
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lateen sails and square rigs
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Triangle shaped sail that made turning easier; big square sails that made ship go faster
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compass
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A tool that had a magnetic needle which would always point north.
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astrolabe
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Used to measure a ships latitude when at sea.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Was a patron of navigators and charted many maps himself.
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the Gold Coast
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A British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa
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Bartholomeu Dias
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He was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
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Vasco de Gama and Calicut
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One of the first people to sail directly from Europe to India. Calicut was the first city he arrived in.
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Alfonso de Albuquerque
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Wanted to close all Indian naval passages, giving only Portugal access.
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Malacca
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The third smallest Malaysian state.
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Spice Islands
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A group of Asian provinces known to have spices
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Christopher Columbus
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First European to arrive in America
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John Cabot
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The second European to arrive in America
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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Made the first European settlement on the American mainland in modern day Columbia.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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The first man to circumnavigate the glove, although he died during the voyage.
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Treaty of Tordestillas
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Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Europe
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Hernan Cortés
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Led a Spanish expedition against the Aztec empire, which led to its fall
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Moctezuma
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The leading of the Aztec empire when it was conquered by the Spanish.
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the Aztecs
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A nation that existed in South America, but was conquered by the Spanish.
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Tenochtitlan
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The capital of the Aztec empire
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the Inca
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Another empire that grew in south america, just north of aztecs.
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Atahualpa
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The last "sovereign emperor" of the Inca empire
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Fransisco Pizarro
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A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire.
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encomienda
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A person would get a certain number of natives to protect and teach Spanish and catholocism
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the viceroy
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a royal official who runs a country, colony, or province
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audiencias
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A Spanish court
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Boers
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The Dutch word for farmer
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Capetown
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A large African trading city
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slave trade and the middle passage
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The transport of African people, forcibly, to the New World
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the triangular trade
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The trade of slaves to New World and goods from New World
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"sugar factories"
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Slaves used to harvest sugar to send back to Europe
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Dutch East India Company
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The first multinational company and the first to issue stock, negotiated trade between Asia and Europe.
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Batavia
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A massive ship that was wrecked on its maiden voyage, and had a mutiny.
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Mughal Empire
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Ruled most of Indian subcontinent and South Asia
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British East India Company
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Traded with East Indies, then went to Indian subcontinent and China.
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Samuel de Champlain
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A french navigator who founded Quebec city in 1603
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the asiento
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Gave other countries permission to sell slaves in Spanish colonies.
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inflation
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The rise of the price of goods.
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joint-stock trading companies
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Buy stock with money. Free to do what you want with stock.
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House of Fugger
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A powerful banking family in Germany, lost vast wealth tied in Habsburg family.
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mercantilism
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The wealth of a nation is based on its capital, which is based on its amount of bullion (gold, silver, etc.)
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mestizos
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People combined with Native American and European ancestries.
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mulattoes
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People combined with African and European ancestries.
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the Columbian Exchange
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A massive exchanged of human, animal, ideas, and other goods between the eastern and western hemispheres.
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Gerardus Mercator
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Famous for his world map, the Mercator.
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