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What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
Rebirth
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What is migration?
A group of people moving from one location to another.
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Define circumnavigate.
Sailing completely around the world.
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Define charter
A document giving permission for colonists to settle in the New World.
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Define Line of Demarcation.
The line that Spain drew in the New World giving Portugal land east and Spain land west.
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True or False: Native Americans believed that spiritual forces could be found only in specific places.
False
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Who was Socrates?
A thinker and philosopher in Ancient Greece.
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What was the Northwest Passage?
A water route that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Does not exist.
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What was the lost colony of Roanoke?
A group of colonists who disappeared and their whereabouts remain a mystery even unto today.
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What was the Spanish Armada?
The Spanish navy.
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Explain how the first people reached the Americas.
Across the Bering Land Bridge - During the Ice Age, large sheets of ice called glaciers formed, resulting in the sea level dropping. When this happened, a land bridge was formed allowing the people to cross over.
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
A sculptor, painter, and architect during the Renaissance period.
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What was the name of the Conquistador who defeated the Inca Empire?
Francisco Pizzaro.
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Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan.
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What were the Dutch hoping to achieve by practicing religious tolerance?
To attract more colonists.
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Explain how trade was impacted because of the Crusades.
It grew and expanded trade between Europe and Asia.
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Who wrote The Republic and what did it describe?
Plato - it described an ideal society based on the ideas of fairness and justice for all.
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What was the African Diaspora?
The spreading out of African slaves once they were taken from their homeland and shipped around the world.
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For what reason did Philip II, King of Spain, want to remove Elizabeth I, Queen of England, from power?
Because she was a Protestant instead of Catholic.
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What two things did the encomienda system allow the settlers to do to the Native population?
To make them work and to tax them.
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What is the Black Death and how did it impact the economy?
Bubonic plague - infectious disease that swept through Europe killing an estimated 25 million people. It caused a shortage of workers because everyone was dying, that resulted in the economy suffering.
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Who were the Olmecs?
The earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica.
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What were the two things Martin Luther charged the Catholic Church with?
Being too wealthy and abusing their power.
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Explain how the Columbian Exchange devastated the Native American population.
Spread diseases that the Native Americans were not used to and wiped out the population.
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In what ways did enslaved Africans try to make life better?
Through family, religion, and music.