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Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.

What is Christopher Columbus

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What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.

What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.

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During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
What is flat
100

disease that led to decline in population

What is Smallpox, influenza

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

Gold, God, and Glory

Motivations for exploration

200

The leg of the journey that brought AFRICANS WAS CALLED?

What is The Middle Passage?

300

was an Italian explorer who first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders

Who is Amerigo Vespucci

300
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.

What is.....New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc.

300
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
What is divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400

Two reasons the Spanish were able to defeat the Natives.

What is 1. Disease 2. Technology

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Explain the Triangular Trade, one of the effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is 1. Tobacco, sugar, grown products to Europe 2. Tea, manufactured goods, etc. made from raw materials from the New World. These goods were sent to the colonies of Africa and eventually the colonies of the "new world". 3. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world".
400

Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.

What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.

400
Why would enslaved people (Native Americans and Africans) keep their traditions alive during slavery?
What is to preserve their cultures and to help them navigate through the difficulties of slavery.
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a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

Who is Hernan Cortes

500

crop that was introduced to Europe will lead to a population increase

What is Potato and Maize?

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Why would certain Native American groups (like the Mayans) would help Hernando Cortes?
What is....most other Native American tribes disliked the Aztecs that Cortes was trying to conquer as the Aztecs ruled the land of what is today Mexico and would have constant conflicts with the Mayans.