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European Exploration

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What word describes the government, policies, laws, etc. ?   political  
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What word describes the people, way of life, beliefs, religion, etc.?   cultural  
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What word describes how people support themselves using limited resources; involves money, jobs, trade, farming, industries, etc?   economic  
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Who financed many explorers?   governments (monarchs) such as Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain financing Columbus's voyages  
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What were the Spanish grants of land called where money money was made from mining, farming or ranching?   encomiendas  
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What is money left over after expenses are paid?   profit  
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What European nation created a New World Empire in modern day Mexico, Central and South America, as well as Florida?   Spain  
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How can the motives of explorers be summarized?   God, Gold, Glory  
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Where was the destination of sought after trade routes for early explorers?   Asia (like the Spice Islands)  
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What motivated the French and Netherlands to establish New World Empires in the Americas?   Fur trade with the Natives  
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What European country was motivated to explore and colonize in order to spread Christianity?   Spain  
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Places where goods were bought and sold; desire to increase these led to explorations?   markets  
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increased demand for luxury trade items after visiting China and writing a book of his experiences   Marco Polo  
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What are large farms that grew cash crops like sugar cane to provide raw materials for the "mother country" called?   plantations  
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The 2 way exchange of goods and ideas between old and new world is known as?   Columbian Exchange  
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What Portuguese explorer was the first to sail to successfully sail to India and reported thousand percent profits from the Spice Trade?   Vasco de Gama  
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first to accomplish this, although he died in the Philippines and his surviving crew completed the mission.   circumnavigated the globe  
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Who landed in the Bahamas, but believed he had found the western water route to Asia? His voyages led to the discovery of North and South America.   Columbus  
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What gave Europeans the ability to explore further from shore line?   technology  
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Stronger, faster sailing ships developed by Portugal were called?   caravel  
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Navigational instruments that could tell north and south of the equator by the position of stars were?   astrolabe  
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Who organized a school for navigation in Portugal?   Prince Henry "The Navigator"  
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What Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) by 1521 with the help of weapons, diseases, alliances with those subjugated by the Aztecs?   Hernan Cortez  
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What killed most of the native population in the Americas, creating a need for a new source of workers?   epidemics of diseases such as small pox  
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The global exchange of goods, ideas, culture, plants, animals...between the Old and New Worlds following 1492 is called?   Columbian Exchange  
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The need for agricultural workers led to the use of what?   enslaved people from Africa  
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