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Short Answer
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The first explorer to find North America
Lief Eriksson
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Portuguese navigator that sailed entirely around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
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to travel all the way around the world
circumnavigate
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a religious movement begun by Martin Luther to reform the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
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Explain the conflict that emerged between Spain and Portugal over their empires in the Americas and how it was resolved.
Spain and Portugal were fighting over lands in the Americas It was resolved by making the Line of Demarcation and signing the Treaty of Tordesillas
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Built an observatory & founded school for navigation Also paid for explorations
Henry the Navigator
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Spanish explorer that found the Pacific Ocean
Vasco de Balboa
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learns ships location by charting star positions
astrolabe
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a large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588
Spanish Armada
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Explain what the Middle Passage was.
A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
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Portuguese explorer that named the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
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Explorer that sailed for England Found the Hudson Bay
Henry Hudson
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ships with triangular sails that could sail against the wind
caravels
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a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
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Which was the most successful European group to settle in North America? -French -English -Dutch
Answers will vary
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Portuguese explorer that traded with India
Vasco da Gama
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French explorer that established Canada
Jacques Cartier
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invisible line divided the Atlantic Ocean Spain owned lands west of this
Line of Demarcation
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an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
charter
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Why did the Spanish turn to enslaved Africans as a labor force in the Americas?
The Native Americans died and they needed a cheap labor force that already had immunity to the European diseases.
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Italian explorer that sailed for Spain thought he landed in Asia, but was in America
Christopher Columbus
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first European to search for the Northwest Passage
John Cabot
500
transfer of plants and animals to and from the Americas
Columbian Exhcange
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have a natural resistance to or against
immune
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How did religion and family provide a refuge from the harsh life enslaved Africans were forced to endure?
-gave them hope -an escape from their harsh lives -something that wasn't under their owners control