Age of Exploration

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In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas created a line of ________.

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demarcation

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How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?

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He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again.

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Vasco Da Gama

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First Portuguese explorer to make it to India

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What is the name of the voyage West Coast African slaves took to the Americas?

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The Middle Passage

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A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

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colony

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Why did Europeans switch from enslaving Native Americans for forced labor to importing slaves from Africa?

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Native Americans died from hard work and diseases

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Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

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Glory

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Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Vasco Da Gama

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First Portuguese explorer to make it to India

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Christopher Columbus

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Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians