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Exploration & Explorers Test

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Person, Place, Event, Term
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Christopher Columbus   Italian Explorer who who discovered the Carribean for Spain and began a busy trade system between Spain and the New World.  
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King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella   The King and Queen of Spain who sponsored Columbus's journey  
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Taino People   The Native people of the Carribean islands. These were the first people of the new world to meet Columbus  
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Vasco Da Gama   A Portuguese explorer who discovered an all water route to India.  
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Conquistador   The name of a type of Spanish explorer that conquered the new world by defeating many native empires.  
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Cortez   The conquistador that conquered the Aztec empire  
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Moctezuma   The leader of the Aztec empire  
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Pizzaro   The conquistador that conquered the Incan empire  
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The three G's   The three goals of the conquistadors: Gold, Glory, and God  
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Ponce de Leon   The conquistador that discovered Florida while searching for the fountain of youth.  
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Cibola   The mythical seven cities of gold  
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What type of colony was New France?   Government  
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What type of colony was New Spain?   Government  
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What type of colony was the New Netherlands?   Private Company  
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Main item traded in New France   Fur  
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Henry Hudson   Explorer who sailed for the Dutch. Claimed the Hudson River for the Netherlands.  
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Marquette & Joilet   2 French explorers that claimed the Mississppi and the Great Lakes for France  
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La Salle   French explorer that claimed the mouth of the Mississippi for France  
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Original Name of New York City   New Amsterdam  
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Peter Stuyvesant   First governor of New Amsterdam  
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Columbian Exchange   The beginning of trade between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (the Americas)  
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Coronado   A conquistador that explored southwest North America looking for the seven cities of Cibola  
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Aztecs   An important Native empire from Mexico  
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Incas   An important Native empire from South America  
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Black Death   A horrible disease that killed thousands of people in Europe during the Middle Ages  
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Renaissance   A time of rebirth in learning about Greece and Rome.  
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Marco Polo   An Italian explorer that returned to Europe after a 17 year trip to China. He inspired other countries to trade with Asia.  
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Bartolome de las Casas   A Spanish priest that spoke out against slavery.  
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Reformation   A time during the Renaisance when the Christian church split into Catholicism and Protestantism  
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Middle Ages   The time in European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance  
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Equator   0 degree Latitude. Divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.  
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Prime Meridian   0 degree Longitude. Divides the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.  
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Vikings   Explorers from Scandanavian Europe that came to the New World in 1000 BCE.  
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