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The Age of Exploration

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show caravel  
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show conquistador  
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show colony  
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show mercantilism  
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a large agricultural estate   show
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the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas   show
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a person born on the Iberian Peninsula and living in the Americas, usually as a government official   show
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show creole  
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show mestizo  
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a person of mixed European and African descent   show
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a labor system used by the Spanish in the Americas where Native Americans were used as forced labor   show
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show mita  
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show Inca  
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show Aztec  
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The Inca were conquered in this year   show
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The Aztec were conquered in this year   show
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This European explorer first encountered the Americas in 1492   show
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show India  
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In 1488, this explorer reached the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa   show
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show peninsulares  
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show creoles  
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These two groups made up the third highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas   show
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show slaves/Native Americans  
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The trading of diseases, food, animals, people, and goods between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia is known as this   show
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show smallpox  
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show Netherlands, France  
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This was the only large domestic animal in the Americas prior to the Columbian Exchange   show
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Europeans developed immunities to diseases from these   show
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show steel  
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This animal was significant in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people   show
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The east coast of the present-day United States was mostly settled by this country   show
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These people were brought to the Americas as slaves   show
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show sugar  
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This was the first step of the Triangular Trade system   show
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show slaves from Africa to the Americas  
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This was the third step of the Triangular Trade system   show
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Approximately this many African slaves were brought to the Americas over the course of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade   show
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The majority of African slaves were brought to this area   show
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This country was colonized by Portugal   show
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The slave trade was officially abolished by Britain in this year   show
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show 1595  
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show Catholic  
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show west  
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He was the first person to travel all the way around the world   show
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show 1502  
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