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Giovanni da Verrazano
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French Searching for sea route to pacific Discovered New York harbor
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Jaques Cartier
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French Exploring new world for France Discovered st Lawrence river / mont real Result- Montreal
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Samuel de Champlain
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French Looking for new land for France Founded : Quebec Result: New France. 32 colonists helped found Quebec
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Henry Hudson
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Netherlands Searching for new sea route to Asia Discovered Hudson Bay Hudson River and Hudson strait Result: Dutch claimed land along these waterways and started fur trade with Iroquois Indians
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Christopher Columbus
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Spain Trying to prove earth was round Discovered America Result. New land for Spain and new world
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese Searching for Pacific Ocean Discovered: Guam and Philippines Result: men who survived were first to circumnavigate the world
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America Vespucci
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Portugal Searching for New world Discovered that the land wasn't India as Columbus thought Result: America
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Vasco Nunez de balboa
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Spain Searching for pacific Discovered Pacific Ocean Result: first European to gaze upon the pacific
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Cortes
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Spain Searching for new lands to claim for Spain in Americas Conquered the Aztecs Result helped Spain colonize which greatly enriched Spain's empire to helpe them leave a mark on the Americas
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Pizarro
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Spain Trying to subdue civs of the americas Discovered: incans and captured incan Capitol Helped Spain create an American empire
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Vasco de gama
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Portugal Searching for India Discovered east Africa and India along with spices silks and gems Result: direct sea route to India
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Alfonso de Albuquerque
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Portugal Searching for an end to Muslim- Italian domain over the Asian trade Conqueror before he became an explorer
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Bartolemeu dias
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Portugal Searching for a direct route to Asia Discovered southeast Africa Result: the tip of Africa had finally been rounded
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Prince Henry
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Portugal Importance : supporter of exploration in Portugal Conquered Muslim city of Ceuta in North Africa Founded: navigational schools for: map makers instrument makers shipbuilders scientists and sea captains
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What role did the Renaissance play in launching an age of exploration?
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Cash flow = exploration Crusades and maps started the age Lots of technological improvements God glory God
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What was a basic difference between French and English attitudes about the land they acquired in North America?
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French wanted to get money from trading. They had lots of single young men which didn't help the population increase British wanted to colonize and claim land so they could claim lAnd
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How did Portugal lead the way in exploration?
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Naval exploration Africans in the Americas Ameigo Vespucci- America Gama- direct route to India Albuquerque- Dias- rounded tip of Africa
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What were some immediate and long-term outcomes of Columbus's voyage?
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He went back to Spain to report his findings and then was sent back to form colonies for Spain. He went from being an explorer to a colonizer,or more accurately a conqjistdor Long term was Portugal got involved and eventually the treaty of tordessillas
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How did the Treaty of Tordesillas separate conflict between Spain and Portugal?
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Made a more concrete plan. Who's land was who's
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How did population impact the colonization of France, Dutch, and England?
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French. Population didn't increase bc of the young single men in the Americas. England wanted to increase their colonial populations so they sent families over
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What were the chief reasons that the French, English, and Dutch each were interested in North America during this time? How did the occupations and activities of the French, English, and Dutch compare?
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They each wanted to expand their territory The French were trying to trade more to get money The English wanted to colonize And the Dutch wanted to increase their territory and explore passageways
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How did slavery in African and Muslim societies differ from slavery in the Americas?
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For African and Muslims, slaves had some rights and opportunity for social mobility, in the Americas, they were like property for their owners
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What were some of the ways in which the Atlantic slave trade affected African and American societies from the 1400s to the 1800s?
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They knew how to farm so plantations were growing The Americas were able to make more money off of cheap labor
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What was mercantilism? How and why did it encourage European colonization of the Americas? (Be sure to consult the chart in your book!)
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A country's power depended on its wealth They all wanted gold England wants gold so they get land from Americas and produce cotton and sell in to Americas and their enemy, France to get money which gets them wealth which apparently Got them power
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Astrolabe
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astrolabe was a brass circle with carefully adjusted rings marked off in degrees. Using the rings to sight the stars, a sea captain could calculate latitude, or how far north or south of the equator the ship was.
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Caravel
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Sturdier ship with triangular sails
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line of demarcation
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Spain and Portugal. Spain got land west and Portugal got land east
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Treaty of tordessillas
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Line was moved and Portugal and Spain signed the treaty
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Mestizo
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Spanish and native ancestry
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Encomienda
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Grant of land from Spain for settlers who agreed to settle They were allowed to use natives as slaves
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Ohio valley
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Good land that led to war between French and British
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King Philips war
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England vs native a,ericans British cattle were killed
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Metacom
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King Philip
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Atlantic slave trade
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Slavs needed in Americas
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Triangular trade
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Over one trade route, Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa. There, traders exchanged these goods for captured Africans.
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Middle passage
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Middle leg of triangular trade Voyage that brought African slaves to the West Indies to be sold as slaves
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Capitalism
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An ecosystem based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit
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Mercantilism.
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Nations sought to increase wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of silver and gold and selling more goods than they bought
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Pope Alexandra vI
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Suggested line of demarcation
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French Indian war
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Britain vs France over control for territory of North America
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Joint stock company
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Investors buying shares of stock in a company
