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Age of Exploration
Chapter 6 Study Guide
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History
10th Grade
12/19/2007

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Three reasons that motivated Europe to seek new trade routes to Asia?
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God, Gold, Glory
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Portugese Explorer: first to explore the southern tip of Africa

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Bartholomeu Dias
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Name for the southern tip of Africa
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Cape of Good Hope
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First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India
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Vasco De Gama
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Italian explorer who sailed for Spain
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Christopher Columbus
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Spanish rulers who funded the voyages of Columbus
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Queen Isabella, King Ferdinand
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Where Columbus landed in the Caribbean
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Cuba, Hispanolia, Bahamas

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Where Columbus thought he landed
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India/Asia

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An imaginary line that divided Spain and Portugal's spheres of influence
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Line of Demarcation
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Treaty that established the imaginary line
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Treat Tordesillas
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Explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England
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John Cabot
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Explorer that said Columbus had discovered a "new world"
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Vespucci

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Spanish Conquistador who took control of the Aztec civilization
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Cortez
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Name of the Aztect leader that provided the Spanish conquistador with girfts
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Montezuma
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Two things the Spanish had that the Aztecs had not seen before
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Guns and Horses
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Spanish conquistador who took control of the Inca civilization
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Explorer whose crew was first to circumnavigate the globe

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Ferdinand Magellan
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French explorer-St. Lawrence River- claimed much of eastern Canada
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Jacques Cartier
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Henry Hudson established/claimed this area, now Manhattan Island
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New Amsterdam

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An economic theory that stated the prosperity of a nation depended on its wealth

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mercantilism
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Two effects the slave trade had on Africa

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Depopulation/Warfare
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In "The Mission" what was the name of the order to which the priests belonged
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Jesuits
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Name of the island chain that the Portugese reffered to as the Spice Islands

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Moluccas

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Europeans had less impact on the mainland states of Southeast Asia because?
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Less spices grew there, had strong monarchies
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