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Chapter 19-21
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History
9th Grade
02/25/2012

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Bartolomeu Dias
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Early portuguese explorer
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese explorer who first reached the port of Calicutt on the southwestern coast of India
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Dutch East India Company
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Very powerful trading company
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Christopher Columbus
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Sea captain who was looking for an alternate route to Asia. He headed west across the Atlantic. He landed on an island in the Caribbean.
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Colony
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Lands that are controlled by another nation
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Hernando Cortes- where he explorered
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Landed on the shores of Mexico in 1519
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Francusco Pizarro- what he conquered
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A conquistador who conquered the Inca empire
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New France
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A land area in Canada claimed by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. He called it Quebec. The base of the French colonial empire in North America
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Jamestown
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The first English settlement in North America
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Pilgrims
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Founded a second English colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts were looking for religious freedom
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Puritans
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Established a second one colony in massachusetts in massachusetts bay. Also sought religious freedom.
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French and Indian War
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Started when the French and English settlement of new lands began to overlap in the Ohio River Valley.
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Metacom-aka
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Native American ruler who was also known as king Philip
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Atlantic slave Trade
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The buying and selling of Africans for work in the America's.
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Triangular trade-what it was
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A transatlantic trading network that transported Africans to the America's
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Middle passage
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The voyage that brought captured Africans to the west indies. So named because it was the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle.
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Capitalism
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The economic system based on private ownership and investment if wealth for profit.
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Bartolomeu Dias- What did he hope to accomplish?
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Hoped to christianize the people of Asia and grow rich
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Bartolomeu Dias-quote
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"to serve God and His majesty, to give light to those who were in the darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do"
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Vasco da Gama-what he found in India
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Was amazed by the spices, rare silks, and gems in India
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Vasco da Gama-why was he a hero to Portugal?
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Returned to Portugal a hero after discovering and navigating a direct route to India
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Dutch East India Company- what they did for the Netherlands?
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Helped the Netherlands become the leading power in sea trade
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Dutch East India Company- how big
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20,000 vessels
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Dutch East India Company-what they could do
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Had the power to mint money, make treaties, and raise their own armies
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Dutch East India Company- why they dominated trade
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Was the most powerful and dominated trade with India.
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Christopher Columbus- second trip details
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On his second trip he brought a fleet of 17 ships and 1,000 settlers
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Hernando Cortes
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Known as conquistadors. He marched inland looking to claim new lands for Spain. We're the first European settlers in the America's.
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Francusco Pizarro-what he did
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Captured the Incan ruler atahualpa and killed him after receiving his ransom
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Jamestown-named in honor of
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The king of England
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Metacom-what he did
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Led an attack on 52 colonial villages throughout Massachusetts
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Triangular trade-how it worked
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Europeans transported goods to to Africa, exchanged the goods for captured Africans, these captured people's were then transported to the west indies who then sold them and used the funds to buy goods to transport back to Europe
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Cardinal Richelieu-his ideas
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Increaed the power of the bourbon monarchy. Moved against the Huguenots and moved to weaken the power of the nobles. He forbad walls and fortified castles
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Ivan the terrible- who he was-good period
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He married Anatasia and won great victories, added lands, established laws , and ruled justly
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Ivan the terrible- who he was - the terrible period
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After his wife's death. He accused the boyars of poisoning his wife. He had people hunted down and killed by his secret police who dressed all in black and rode black horses. He killed his eldest sonmduringma violent quarrel, which led to his downfall.
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