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Age of Exploration
Edge NC History
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History
8th Grade
10/11/2007

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Marco Polo Traveled china in what year?

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1295
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Marco Polo was born in ________?
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Italy
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Merchants took what kind of route that was very dangerous?
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Overland
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Why was the overland route dangerous?
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Cause of robbers

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What type of new route were they looking for?
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A sea route

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Who started a school for sailors?
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Prince Henry
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Who found the sea route to India?
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Da Gama
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Who were rivals?
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Spanish and Portuguese
(Spain & Portugal)
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Who funded Colubus trip?
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Spain

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Found route to America?
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Colubus
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Defeated the Aztecs?
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Cortes
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Defeated the Inca?
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Pizarro
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Claimed/Explored Fla.?
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Ponce de Leon
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De Soto Explored what?
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Southeatern US
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De Soto Discovered what?
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Mississippi River
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Who claimed pa., De. & Ny/NJ?
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Netherlands
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1st english explorer was who?
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Sir humophrey Gilbert
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Queen Elizabeth I granted him permission to settle on what lands?
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NON-Christian
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Gilbert got killed on a Ship During what?
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A Storm
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A Phyiscal piece of paper to Let you Do Something?
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Charter
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Amadas & Barlowe laned on roanole Is. what yr.?
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1584
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2 Indains that went to enland were?

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Maneteo & Wancheese
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raleigh Sent lane what yr.?
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1585
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lane brought?
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100 miltary men
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1st Eurpean settlement?
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St.Augstine
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John white was in what yr.?
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1587
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Who ran short of supplies?
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White's Colony
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what is his Colony now called?
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lost colony
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Why?
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They disapeared
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1607?
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1st perment English Settlment
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