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History Vocab

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Americans gave Europe goods like sugar, tabacco, and cotton. Europe gave Africa goods. Africa gives American slaves   Triangle of Trade  
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The exchange of foods, crops, and disease across Atlantic   Columbian Exchange  
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Spainards living in Spain that were born there   Peninsulares  
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Forced labor caused a new social structure and classes to direct   Encomienda System  
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Conquer (Spain)of Mexico to Peru   Conquistadors  
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Longest Empire ever seen in the Americas   Inca Civilivation  
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Agreement dividing Spain and Portugal and that the other people can't cross   Treaty of Tordesillas  
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Last fully independent ruler of Aztec Empire   Montezuma  
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Idea that a country take raw materials and sell them for profit   Mercantilism  
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Discouraged by Bartolomeu Dias   Cape of Good Hope  
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First to sail from Europe to India by going around Southern Africa   Vasco de Gama  
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Known for his discovery of the new world   Christopher Columbus  
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The last Inca Empire   Atahuallpa  
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Wiped out 90% of Indigonus empire   Smallpox  
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Infection similar to smallpox   Influenza  
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Conquered by Cortex and Pizzaro   Aztecs  
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Taken over by Ottomans and destroyed city   Constantinople  
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Named the trip of Africa the cape or good hope   Bartholomew Diaz  
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First explorer to circumnavigate the world   Magellan  
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To sail or travel all the way around   Circumnavigate  
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Sea channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans   Straits of Magellan  
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A sailing ship used by the portugese to explore the West African coast and into the Atlantic ocean   Caravel  
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A ancient astronomical instrument that was a hand-held universe. Sailors used this to find the north star   Astrolabe  
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A stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangle trade   Middle Passage  
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A religious order of clerics regular of political rights for men in the catholic church headquartered in Rome. Founded in 1540   Jesuits  
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A person mixed with European and Indigenous Americans   Mestizo  
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A person mixed with black and white parents   Mulatto  
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A person mixed with European and Spanish American decent   Creole  
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The valuable of domestic goods exported exceeds the value of foreign goods imported   Favorable balance of Trade  
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Ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of sovereign   Viceroy  
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Italian navigator and explorer. He helped lay the ground work for Britans later claim to Canada   John Cabot  
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Monarchs rule in their own rights or power   Absolute Monarchy  
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English philosopher who believed that humans had natural rights (rights your born with) life, liberty, property (liberal)   John Locke  
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English philosopher who believed that people are selfish and need a monarch to rule them   Thomas Hobbes  
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Rights you are born with and everyone deserves to have   Natural Rights  
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A genevan philosopher and writher who wrote the social contract   Rousseau  
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Explains that people could only expirence true freedom if they lived in a civil society   Social Contract  
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