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World History Chapter 15
The seach for spices & Diverse traditions in SE Asia & European footholds in SE Asis and India
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History
10th Grade
01/10/2010

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Cards

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A person who makes maps

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Cartographer

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An instrument used to determine latitude and longitude while at sea

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Astrolabe

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A type of ship that combined square and triangle sails

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Caravel

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Pushed Portugal into the front of European seaward exploration

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Henry the Navigator

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Rounded the Southern tip of Africa with his crew

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Bartholomeau Dias

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The Southern tip of Africa was known as _________________.

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The Cape of Good Hope

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Led four ships around The Cape of Good Hope

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Vasco de Gama

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Columbus' three ships...

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The Pinta, The Nina, and The Mayflower

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_____ and ____ pressed rival claims to the islands Columbos explored.

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Spain and Portugal

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Set the "Line of Demarcation"

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Pope Alexander VI

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Divided the non-European world into two zones

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Line of Demarcation

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Spain had the right to trade and explore ______ of the line of Demarcation.

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West

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Portugal had the right to trade and explore ______ of the Line of Demarcation.

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East

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Italian sailor who wrote reports about the "New World"

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Hacked a passage through the tropical forest of Panama.

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Believed that he could find "El Paso"

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Ferdinland Magellian

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A sea route through the Americas to the Indies

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El Paso

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Recruited sailors for a two year voyage

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Ferdinand Magellian

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Left Spain toward the "bottom of the world"

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Magellan and Sailors

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Magellan and Sailors reached ________ in _________ of ____

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The Phillipines; March; 1591

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Died fighting to save his comrades

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Magellan

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First sailor to circumnavigate (sail around the globe)

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Magellan's sailors

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Circumnavigate

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Sail around the globe

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El Paso later became...

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The Northwest Passage

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Found Newfoundland and claimed it for England

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John Cabot

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Explored the St. Lawrence River (NE Canada)

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Jaques Cartier

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Explored the Hudson River (NY)

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Henry Hudson

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SE Asis is made up of two major regions

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Mainland SE Asia

Island SE Asis (more than 20,000 islands)

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Monsoons

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Seasonal winds, shaped trading patterns.

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The ____ and ____ straits affected the Indian-Chinese trade routes.

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Malacca; Sunda

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Third religion other than Hinduism and Buddhism that was carried in...

 

 

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Islam

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The kingdom of Pagan arose because of...

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Fertile Rice-Growing

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United the region of Myanmar (Kindgom of Pagan)

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King Anawrata

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The Khymer empires greatest rulers controlled most of ____, _____, and ______.

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Cambodia; Thailand; Malaysia

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Built Angkor Wat

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King Suryavarman

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Trading empire in Indonesia from 600s to 1200s

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Srivijaya

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Taken over by China

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Vietnam

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Absorbed confucian ideas, Chinese civil service system,and Chinese government after being taken over by China

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Vietnam

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Led an uprising and drove out the Chinese

 

 

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Trung Trac and Trung Nhi

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