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Who said that Columbus had actually discovered a "New World?” (mapmaker)
Amerigo Vespucci
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What were the first explorers looking for? Why were they exploring? (3 g's / 3 f's)
God, gold, glory
Faith, fortune, Fame
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What book did Machiavelli write?
The Prince
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What was the most important colony of Portugal?
Brazil
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Briefly describe the triangular trade route.
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What was the name of the Dutch colony on Manhattan Island
New Amsterdam
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What language does most of South America speak? What is the second?
1st: Spanish
2nd: Portuguese
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What did Columbus name the people he met on his trip?
Indians
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Why were the Europeans so interested in getting to Asia? (be specific)
Spices and Silks
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Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Cortez
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What was the journey from West Africa to the Americas known as?
Middle Passage
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What was the name of the first permanent French settlement in America? Who founded it?
Quebec
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Where did the Aztecs live?
Mexico
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What was the line of Demarcation? What was its purpose?
Where the world was split between Spain and Portugal to stop them from fighting.
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Name two inventions or technologies that aided the explorers at this time.
Compass and Astrolabe
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What word means to be kicked out of the church?
excommunicated
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Who defeated the Incas
Pizarro
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Name the first permanent settlement of the English in the Americas.
Jamestown, Virginia
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What mountain range did the Incas live in?
Andes
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Who established the Line of Demarcation?
The Pope
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Who was the first man to find a water route to India in 1498?
Vasco da Gama
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How many trips did Columbus make to the New World?
4
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Who did the Spanish use as slave labor initially.
Native Americans
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What group of people settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620?
Pilgrims
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Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?
Magellan
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Where, specifically, did Columbus land on his voyage to the New World?
Bahamas
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What was the world's largest commercial city in the 1600s (in the Netherlands)
Amsterdam
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What was the main reason the British began to search for new land? How was it different for the French?
British wanted raw materials
French companies looking for a quick profit from trade (fur)