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Social Studies Chapter 11
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Social Work
7th Grade
05/02/2011

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Vasco Degama
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Rounded the tip of Africa, raced across the Indian Ocean,and landed on India's Coast.
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Christopher Columbus
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Came up with a daring plan to get to Asia.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Tried to finish what Columbus set out to do.
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John Cabot
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Commanded  an English ship that headed across the Atlantic.
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Jacques Cartier
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He sailed past Newfoundland and entered the St. Lawrence River.
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Astrolabe
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An ancient Greek device that could be used to find latitude.
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Compass
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Invented by the Chinese, helped navigators find magnetic north.
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Caravel
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A Portuguese ship.
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Cartography
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The science of map making.
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Henry VIII
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Broke from the Catholic Church and became a Prostestant.
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Queen Elizabeth I
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To help the Dutch, she let English privateers attack Spanish ships.
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
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Led a Portuguese war ship against the Muslim merchants in the Indian Ocean.
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Mercantillism
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Ideas of becoming rich.
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Export
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To sell things to another country.
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Import
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To buy things from another country.
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Colony
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A settlement in new territory.
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Commerce
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The buying or selling of goods in large amounts over long distances.
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Invest
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Putting money into a project.
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Capitalism
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A system in which people, rather than the governments, own property, and make goods.
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Columbian Exchange
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Christopher Columbus started this after he started to bring back goods from America to Europe.
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Pampas
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Grassy Plains
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East India Company of England
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East India Company of England had built an empire in India.
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Dutch East India Company
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Built an empire in Indonesia.
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Hispaniola
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An island in the west Indies
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Strait of Magellan
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Channel between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean on the tip of South America
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St. Lawrence River
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AJohn cabot captured this
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