Age of exploration

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Motivation discovery

Trade in luxury goods

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High demand

High price

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Who controlled trade?

The Muslims

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What did europeans want to find a sea route to?

Asia (India)

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What kind of new sails were there?

Triangular

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The caravel

What ship had a wider beam and was large?

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Compass, astrolabe, sextant instruments

What was used to guide ships?

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Astrolobe

An astronomical and navigational instrument that used a mathematical technique called stereographic projection to the map the celestial sphere onto a flat plate

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Sextant instrument

a navigational item used to determine the angle between two distant points, such as celestial objects

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Wheel lock pistol and iron cannons

What new weapons were there?

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Prince Henry

Who began a school for navigators?

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Bartolomeu DIas

The first to sail around the southern tip of africa

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Vasco de gama

Discovered the first direct water route between Europe and India

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Alfonso de Albuquerque

A conquistador who expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian ocean

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Cristobol Colon

Believed the world was round, Found North America and the Bahamas

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The Taino

The natives Christopher Columbus first met

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Ferdinand Magellan

A map maker who sailed

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Amerigo Vespucci

Proved that the Americas were a new continent

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Hernan Cortez

Arrived in Montezuma, Mexico; Conquered the Aztec

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Smallpox

What was the Europeans secret weapon against the natives?

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Francisco Pizarro

Conquered the Inca in 1519

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Potesi, Peru

Where was the silver strike?

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Haciendas

Landed estates with natives

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Ecomienda

System that gave natives as a labor force

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Repartimento

Replaced the ecomienda; Made natives give a tax of their labor

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The black legend

Brutal treatment of the natives and africans

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Triangular trade

Goods from europe → africa for slaves → america

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The middle passage

Route which took slave ships from Africa to the new world

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The Colombian exchange

The exchange for food, animals, and crops that occurred as a result of the contact of the old and new world

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