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economic policy of bringing more wealth into the nation than goes out by creating colonies overseas
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social and economic system of labor in New Spain with Spanish on top and Native and African slaves at the bottom of the pyramid
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King of Spain who ended Muslim rule in Europe and paid for Columbus' voyage
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Medieval Italian merchant who travelled to China and wrote about his journeys when he returned home.
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Arab invention that allowed travellers to know their latitude and time of day by measuring the angle of the sun and stars
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Aztec emperor who was captured and died in the custody of the Spanish
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Chinese invention that so increased military power that the Spanish were easily able to conquer native peoples of the Americas
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Queen of Spain who ended Muslim rule in Europe and paid for Columbus' voyage
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Ferdinand ________ first explorer to sail all the way around the world
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religious war waged on Muslims by Christian Europeans to take back the Holy Lands
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Italian explorer for Spain who sailed west to reach Asia and mistakenly "discovered" the Western Hemisphere
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Columbian _________ the transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas and diseases between the Old World and the New after Columbus
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large plantations given to the Spanish conquistadors, along with the labor of the natives who lived on it
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network of trade routes that connected Asia to the Middle East and Europe, supplying luxury goods like pepper and silk
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Old World disease that killed a large percentage of the natives of the Americas, allowing for easy European conquest
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Empire whose takeover of Constantinople forced European countries to look for new routes to Asia
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Chinese invention that allowed travellers to know which direction they were going by always pointing to magnetic north
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a religious settlement in New Spain where natives were expected convert to Christianity and work to support the settlement
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small, fast, sailing ships with lateen sails that allowed for long travel on the ocean
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European country that colonized the eastern coast of North America
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Portuguese explorer who made it to India and brought back spices
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European country that colonized Canada
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Empire who was taken over and destroyed by Hernan Cortes
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Spanish landowner who became a priest and spoke out for more humane treatment of the Native Americans
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Bartolomeu _____ Portuguese explorer who first sailed around southern end of Africa
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South American empire conquered by Francisco Pizzaro
