Causes and Effects of the Age of Discovery
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| Who was Prince Henry the Navigator? | The prince of Portugal who created a school of navigation souring on the Age of Exploration
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| Why did Europeans set sail to explore? | To create empire, to search of new markets and economic opportunities and to spread Christianity
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| Who was Vasco De Gama? | Portuguese sailor who circumnavigated Africa to reach Asia.
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| Who was Christopher Columbus? | Spanish sailor from Italy who sailed West to get East & "discovered" Americas in the process
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| Who was Hernando Cortes? | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in modern-day Mexico
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| Who was Francisco Pizarro? | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan civilization of Andean Peru and Chile
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| Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Spanish mariner who is credited as the first to circumnavigate the Earth.
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| Who was Sir Francis Drake? | The first Englishman credited with circumnavigating the Earth
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| Who was Jacques Cartier? | A French mariner who navigated into the St. Lawrence River in hopes of finding a Northwest passage
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| What was the Old World? | Europe, Africa, and Asia
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| What was the New World? | The Americas
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| What was the Colombian Exchange? | The biological and cultural exchange between the Old and New Worlds instigated by the voyages of Columbus
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| What went from the Old to New World in the Columbian Exchange? | Largely diseases and livestock, but some agricultural products, like citrus, as well
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| What went from the New World to the Old World in the Columbian Exchange? | Agricultural products like tobacco, peanuts, corn, cotton, etc
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| What legacy did the colonial governments of Latin America leave? | A rigid social class system and a dictatorial form of government
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| What caused the African slave trade? | The death of the indigenous population of the Americas
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| What was Triangular Trade? | The trade of goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas-from Europe, manufactured goods, from Africa slaves, and from Americas raw materials
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| How did the African slave trade affect Africa? | Depleted their populations of the fittest members of society & led to inter-tribal warfare
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| What was mercantilism? | Monopolistic trade system between mother country and colonies benefiting the mother country
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| What was the Commercial Revolution? | The advent of banking, financing, and mercantilism which led to economic growth in Europe
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| What was the Middle Passage? | The journey of African slave ships across the Atlantic to the Americas
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