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| America before European settlement |
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| -original discoverers came over the land bridge in Alaska called Beringia |
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| Beringia was what over what? |
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| a land bridge in Alaska over the Beringia Strait |
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| Africa Kinds of Native Americans (optional) |
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| Aztecs, Incas, Taro, Seminoles, Missouri, Choctaws, Iroquois |
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| -Europeans knew of Africa -had little knowledge of it -did not know how large -54 different countries |
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| -Holy Wars -knights of Europe trying to get the Holy Land back from the Muslims (Israel,Jordan, Syria, Lebanon |
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| Middle Ages European structure |
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| What did Europe find in Africa? |
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| spices (curry cinnamon, salt, paprika, preservatives+taste) silk, gold, silver, precious goods, commodities |
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| -rise of the merchant class -early middle ones had very little middle class |
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| Rise of (King) Nation States |
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| -standard of living increases |
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| -Gutenberg -made it easier for people to share ideas |
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| Christianity after the Holy War |
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| -people wanted to spread it to Asian cultures -recedes -no longer dominant force |
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| first country to start exploration |
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| Prince Henry the Navigator |
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| -organized and payed for sailing expeditions to sail around Africa to Asia |
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| beliefs of the Earth around Columbus' time |
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| -knew earth was round -did not know South America was there |
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