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Chapter 16 BB

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A light, fast sailing ship   Caravel  
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Prince Henry, the son of King John 1 of Portugal   Henry the Navigator  
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Set out for India in 1947   Vasco da Gama  
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Believed he could sail west around the world from Spain to reach China   Christopher Columbus  
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Decided to sail west around the world   Ferdinand Magellan  
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Sail completely around the world   Circumnavigate  
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The English queen sent him to round the tip of South America and explore its west coast   Sir Francis Drake  
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Set out to the north, hoping to find a north passage around Europe   Henry Hudson  
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System to the Caribbean   Encomienda  
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Led the expedition to Mexico that ended with the conquest of the Aztec Empire   Hernan Cortes  
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Conqueror   Conquistador  
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At the time of the Spanish arrival in Mexico, the Aztec emperor was ___   Moctezuma 2  
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Led an expedition to Peru   Franciso Pizarro  
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Had only just taken control of the empire when the spanish arrived   Atahualpa  
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Each of whom ruled a large area in the king's name   Viceroys  
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The most vocal of these reformers was a priest named ___   Bartolome de Las Casas  
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Drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic   Treaty of Tordesillas  
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What historians called the global transfer   Colombian Exchange  
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Europeans developed a new type of economic policy   Mercantilism  
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A country would receive more gold and silver from other nations than it paid them   Balance of trade  
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Grants of money, to help business people start new industries   Subsidies  
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The economic system expanded   Capitalism  
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Investors began to pool their money into ___ to found ever-larger businesses   Joint-stock companies  
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Estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale   Plantations  
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Captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became part of a network   Triangular trade  
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Second leg, brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves   Middle passage  
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One African, later wrote about these horrific conditions   Olaudah Equiano  
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As a result of slave trade, people of African descent spread throughout the Americas and Western Europe   African Diaspora  
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