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04/15/2013

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What country explored Africa?
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Portugal
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What countries explored America?
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Spanish, French, and English
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What were the three inventions that helped the Eurpoeans finally be able to explore across the Atlantic Ocean?
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astrolabe, compass, and triangular sails
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What was the result of early explorers (Marco Polo late 1200's) who told of spices, exotic lands and riches?
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exploration
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Traders and ports raised prices how many times its orginal price?
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100 times
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Who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?
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Vasco de Gama
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Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
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southern tip of Africa
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How many of the original sailors to sail around the Cape of Good Hope with vasco de Gama survived?
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44 of 170
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What did Prince Henry do?
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he established a center for navigation and exploration
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Who paid for Columbus' expedition?
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
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When and where did Columbus set sail?
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August 3, 1492 from Palos, Spain
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What were Columbus' three ships?
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Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
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When did Columbus sight land?
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October 12, 1492
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When did Columbus die still believing he had found Asia?
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1506
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What to countries signed the Treaty of Tordesalles to establish an imaginary border?
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Spain and Portugal
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How did the Spanish kill the natives?
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disease brought from Europe
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How many years was it when more than half of the natives in the new world were dead?
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8 years (1492-1500)
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Who made the first circumnavigation?
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Magellan
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What did Magellan's sailors have to eat to survive?
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leather, sawdust, and rats
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Spain controlled the New World until 1588 when the Spanish armada was defeated by who/led by?
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England/Sir Frances Drake
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What was the global exchange of goods, technology, ideas, people, and diseases known as?
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the Columbian Exchange
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Who challenged Ptolemy's belief of an earth centered universe and said it was usn centered?
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Copernicus
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Who developed stronger and larger telescope and was the first to observe sunspots, Jupiter's moons, and Saturn's rings?
Definition
Galileo
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What are the steps by Francis Bacon of the Scientific Method?
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Observe, Hypothesize, Predict, Test, Modify
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Who developed the universal law of gravitation?
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Sir Isaac Newton
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What is another term for the Enlightment?
Definition
Age of Reason
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Who were 2 early english thinkers?
Definition
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
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What was Tomas Hobbes idea?
Definition
Said humans were naturally selfish and violent and couldn't be trusted to make decisions of their own- needed a strong gov. like a monarchy
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What were John Locke's ideas?
Definition
the natural law affirmed citizen's rights and the gov. answered to the people- everyone from birth has the same right to life, liberty, and to own property. If gov. took away natural rights, people had a right to set up a new government.
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Who said the government should have 3 branches of power?
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Montesquieu
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Who opposed the Enlightment ideas?
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Jean-Jacques Roussseau
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What was the first permanent english settlement? Where and when.
Definition
Jamestown, Virgina in 1607
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When did Pilgrims settle in Plymouth?
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1620
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What was the name of the ship that the pilgrims came over on?
Definition
Mayflower
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Who founded MAssachusetts, Rhode ISland, Connecticut, and New Hampshire?
Definition
the Puritans
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Who founded Maryland?
Definition
English Catholics
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Who founded Pennsylvania?
Definition
Quakers and other persecuted religious groups
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How many original colonies were there?
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13
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What act forced colonists to pay taxes on newspapers and printed materials?
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the Stamp Act
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What is known as the Boston Massacre?
Definition
British tropps fired into a crowd of protestion colonists, killed 5 people.
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What is the Result of the Tea Act?
Definition
Boston Tea Party
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What was an Intolerable Act?
Definition
soldiers quartering, or forcing colonists out of their homes
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When delegates from 12 colonies met in September 1774, what did they call themselves?
Definition
First continental Congress
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Where and when was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
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April 19,1775- Concord and Lexington
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Who published a pamphlet and urged colonists to separate from Great Britain?
Definition
Thomas Paine
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When did congress issue the Declaration of Independence?
Definition
July 4, 1776
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
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How did Britain recognize American independence?
Definition
1783, Treaty of Paris
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Who was the first President?
Definition
George Washington
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What are the certain rights of citizens that the gov. couldn't violate?
Definition
Bill of Rights (first 10 ammendments)
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