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Undergraduate 2
09/15/2009

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why did European exploration increase in the 1400s?
Definition
consolidating power, new trade routes were created, people wanted their own land and wanted to find the west indies; Mongol invasion
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how did early colonization in west africia influence later colonization efforts?
Definition
The production of sugarcane in the west indies; knowing that you could travel to a new world and use the products the land has to offer for money
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Canary Islands
Definition
experiment in colonization; 100 miles northwest of Africia; spanish colonized there
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Guanche
Definition
Indigenous peoples; Berber-related people originally from North Africa
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