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18 Cards in this Set
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Vasco De Gama
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1498 - travelled around the cape of Africa and forced trade with India.
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Bartholomew Diaz
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1488 - went around the cape of Africa but was forced to turn back because of mutiny.
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Magellan
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Portugese man sailing for the Spanish.
First man to go all around the world. Schooled at Sagres probed the edge of S.A. untill he finally found the end. Manservant first to go all around the world. died in phillipines |
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Amerigo Vespuci
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"Terra Nova"
made maps of America Spanish explorer |
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Waldsmuller
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Map Maker in Germany
used Vespuci's maps to make an accurate map of America. |
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1651
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Navigation Acts
English Imported goods needed to be from england or from Country that Manufactured them. Under Cromwell against the Dutch. |
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Alburquerque
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Portugese Govonor general
Forts in Central Africa first colonial trade empire wanted to curve the nial and ruin Egypt |
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St Francis Xavier
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Jesuit who baptized thousands in Asia (by 1550)
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Treaty of 1494
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Divided South America for Spain and Portugal.
Spain got the Americas and Phillipines Portugal got Africa, Asia and Brazil. |
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Line of Demarcation
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Line by which S.A. was divided.
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Encomienda
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Law to keep INdians from being worked too hard. (only allowed to work certain number of days a week) (enforced?) (like serfdom in Americas)
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Mestizos
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White and Indian Spanish people
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Potosi
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silver mine in Peru (present day Bolivia)
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University of Lima
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University with professors in Peru (Lima)
universities in 2 viceroyalties. |
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Charted Trading Companies
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Merchants and Government came together.
Joint Stock trading companies. |
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Joint Stock Trading companies
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People bought stock to fund (dividens or re-selling) in hopes that the value of the stock would go up. (bubble act later with John Law)
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French East India Company
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founded 1664
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Warren Hastings
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Englishman and established english supremacy in India
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