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Chapter 2 Test
exploring the americas
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Political Studies
8th Grade
10/27/2008

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the period of intellectual and artistic creativity became known as...

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the Renaissance
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The vast trading empire developed in West Africa between 400 and 1100. It was... 
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Ghana
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Who was mali's greatest king...
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Mansa Musa
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Who was the first European explorer to reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope?
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Vasco De Gama
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Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition was the first to __________.

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circumnavigate the globe

 

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The conquistador who conquered the Aztec was _____
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Hernán Cortés
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A presidio was a __________.
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Fort
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Who pleaded for laws to protect the native americans
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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According to the theory of mercantilism, a nation’s power was based on __________.
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its wealth

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