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age of exploration
Edge NC History
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History
8th Grade
10/11/2007

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where did marco travel?

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Travled to China on land.

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how long was the journey?

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his journey lasted about 13 years.

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       brought back?
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Spices, silk, paper money, Gun powder, and other items that Europe had never seen before. He became filthy rich.
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  land trading.
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how did they travel before they found a sea route?

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where have people been trading for centuries?
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Meditererraninan sea
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whas the land route to asia dangerous?
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yes very.
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what would happen to a explorer if they found a sea rotue to asia?

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they would become very rich.
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where did the portuguese sailiors sail
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in the mediterrainian sean and in the alantic ocean.

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where did De Soto explore?
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SouthEastern United States.
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What did De Soto discover?
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the mississippi river
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what did the dutch people claim?

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what is now Pa. De. and Ny/Nj
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who discorvered the tip of africa?
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Dias
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when did Colombus sail to The new world?
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1492
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what is a conquistador?
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a spainish fighter or cortez man.
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what did queen elizabeth 1. tell them NOT to claim?
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non-christian islands.
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why did Henry start a school?
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so he can have more educated sailors and mapmakers.
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where does the French have a settlement
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in South Carolina
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the french claimed land along which rivers?

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Mississippi and Ohio
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what did Colombus accidentaly BUMP into trying to find sea route to Asia?
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America
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who did the Actecs think the spainards where when they arrived to their colony?
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the returning gods
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what did cortes do?
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defeat the Aztecs
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what did Pizarro do?
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Defeated the Incas
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what did Ponce De Leon do?
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explored Florida and claimed it for Spain
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what did Dias name the tip of Africa?
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cape of good harbor.
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why did White return to England and leave the colony behind

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to get more supplies.
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did sir humphrey gilbert claim new colonies?

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no he died
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how did Sir humphrey Die?
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in a storm at sea.
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who took over for Sir Humphrey?
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his younger brother Sir Walter Raleigh
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who made the first permanent settlement?
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Sir walter Raleigh
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what was Jamestown?
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the first permanent english colony
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