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| Gold (to find ways to make money), Glory (fame), God (To spread the home country's religion - either Protestant or Catholic- across the globe) |
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| A term used in business when a country or company owes all of one type of business. For example, if you owned all of the gas stations, you'd have a monopoly. |
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| First European to discover the western hemisphere and use his discovery to profit from it. Sailed for Spain, which led to the Conquistadors taken gold from the Aztecs and Inca. |
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| First explorer to be given credit for sailing around the world. Unfortunately for him, his crew made it but he was eaten in the Philippines by cannibals. |
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| Columbian Exchange or Effect of Columbus on the Native Americans |
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| The Europeans traded with the Native Americans for gold, vegatables, etc. Perhaps the most important exchange, however, was the bringing of diseases such as small pox that killed millions of Native Americans. |
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| Conquistadors conquer the Aztecs |
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| The Conquistadors used gunpowder to control the Aztecs, a powerful Mexican group of Native Americans. The Conquistadors then took the Aztec gold. |
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| The splitting of the Christian Church in Europe into Catholics and Protestants by Martin Luther |
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| Split the Catholic Church in Germany by putting 95 Thesis (or 95 complaints) ion the church doors in Wittenburg, Germany. He was an excommunicated priest. |
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| Christian religious groups who left the Catholic Church. |
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| This is what the explorers of France, Britain, and the Dutch were looking for in North America. It is an all water route to the Pacific Ocean. Doesn't exist until the building of the Panama Canal and the very recent melting of the ice above Canada. |
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