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The first European explorer to "discover" the Americas
Christopher Columbus
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Two European nations that began the Age of Exploration
Spain and Portugal
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Continents referred to as the "New World"
The Americas (North & South America)
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Journey of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean
Middle Passage
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Part of the world circled on this map (in old-fashioned Eurocentric terms)
New World
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Explorer the Americas are named after
Amerigo Vespucci
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People who traveled to new lands to convert indigenous people to Christianity
Missionaries
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Disease that killed large numbers of Indigenous people in the Americas
Smallpox
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Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Triangular trade
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System of trade showed by this map
Triangular trade
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The explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world
Ferdinand Magellan
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Agreement to divide the world between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Crop from the Americas that increased European population
Potato
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Type of goods traded from Europe to Africa as part of the triangular trade
Manufactured goods
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System of exchange represented by this map
Columbian Exchange
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Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa and reached India
Vasco da Gama
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New kind of ship used by European explorers
Caravel
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System used by the Spanish to distribute land to settlers and collect tribute from Indigenous people
Encomienda system
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Type of goods brought from the Americas to Europe in the triangular trade
Raw materials
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Arrow on this map that represents the Middle Passage
Green arrow
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Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
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Tool used by sailors to measure the angle of the stars in order to find latitude
Astrolabe
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Colonizing power that practiced settler colonialism in North America
England
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Chocolate, tobacco, coffee, and sugar were examples of these types of goods
Luxury goods
500
Country whose territory is represented in yellow on this map
Spain