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-Danish Man
-Sent by Czar of Russia to see if Russia connected to America
-Helped to map out the coast of Asia
-Discovered the Bering Strait |
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-Invented the printing press
-most influential invention of the last 1,000 years
-Allowed for mass production of maps, travel journals, and the Bible
-Could spread word much quicker about new explorations and allowed for further explorations to break off of the maps from existing ones |
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-During the time of mass exploration spain was unstable because of some Muslim control
-Under the rule of Ferdinand and Isabella Grenada was recaptured from the Muslims for Christianity |
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-On the throne when England started t settle the Americas
-Virgin queen who never married
-Refused to marry phillip of spain
-Virginia is named after her
-On the throne for the defeat of the Spanish armada |
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-Founded Calvinism
-Came up with the idea of predestination |
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-First permanent colony/ settlement
-1607 at least 900 people came to settle in Jamestown (mostly looking for Gold)
-2nd Winter in Jamestown known as the Great Starvation
-60 people survived
-Indians helped them to survive |
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-Major player in Jamestown
-Crossbred different types of tobacco
-Created the first important and smokable type of tobacco
-Called for the mass production/ growth of tobacco
-African slaves had to be imported to grow it |
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-Nathaniel Bacon
-Led a group of 400 men to seige Jamestown
-Poor whites and Free Blacks wanted the governor to say no deal to the Indians but he was trading with the Indians
-Turning point from class war to race war |
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-different group of protestants
-Believed all men were equal
-People were scared b/c they quaked when the spirit came to them
-refused to pay taxes in England b/c tax money in England supported the Church of England
-William Penn founded Philadelphia
-Made friends with the Indians b/c they were all equal |
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-Written by Thomas Paine around the year change between 1775 and 1776
-Basically used common sense
-Said that it made no sense fo the tiny country of England 3000 miles away to rule such a large piece of land
-1st book to use the word independence
-Bascially said the time to try for independence was now or never
-Pointed out that the British would have to fight a front line 1000 miles long |
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