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Age of Exploration - Cornell

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Who is a merchant?   A person who buys and sells goods for a living.  
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What is bartering?   To exchange goods without using money.  
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What does trade mean?   To exchange things of value.  
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What two things are exchanged when people exchange?   goods and ideas  
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What is an empire?   A large area which different groups of people are controlled by a ruler or government.  
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What did Marco Polo accomplish?   This person made other Europeans want to trade with China.  
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What group of people conquered most of Asia to make Marco's travel's possible?   The Mongolians.  
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What is navigation?   The science of plotting and controlling the course of a ship.  
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What is the Columbian Exchange?   The transfer of people, plants , and animals across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus' first trip to the americans.  
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What are germs?   Very tiny, simple living things that often cause diseases.  
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What is immunity?   having resistance to a disease.  
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What are diseases?   illness, condition to which a bodily system does not work properly.  
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What is an epidemic?   the spread of a disease amoung many people.  
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What is a plantation?   A large farm that often grows one cash crop.  
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What is slavery?   A cruel system in which people worked without pay and freedom.  
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What does circumnavigate mean?   to sail around the world.  
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What is the meaning of conquistadors?   Spanish word for conqueror.  
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What does enslaved mean?   To force people against their will.  
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To Europe from New World: FOOD   corn tamotoes patatoes sweet patatoes pinapple  
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To Europe from New World: ANIMALS   muskrats squirrels Turkey  
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To New World from Europe: FOOD   Wheat Sugar Rice Melons Oranges  
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To New World from Europe: ANIMALS   horses sheep cattle pigs goats  
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