Who was a Portuguese pioneer of nautical exploration, helping Europeans to establish navigation schools and explore further than ever before?
Prince Henry the Navigator
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What is Nicolaus Copernicus known for developing?
The heliocentric theory
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The ______________ Plan was designed for the Spanish to protect and educate the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but essentially became glorified slavery.
Encomienda
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Who discovered that the planets travel in elliptical paths, not circles as previously thought?
Johannes Kepler
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Give two exports of Africa.
Ivory, gold, slaves, salt
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Who sailed for Spain and is credited with destroying the Incan Empire?
Francisco Pizarro
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Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and helped Elizabeth I defeat the Spanish Armada?
Francis Drake
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What was the spread of ideas, goods, diseases, and more from the eastern to/from western hemispheres?
Columbian Exchange
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What were established by the British, Portuguese, and Dutch to expand into Africa and Asia and had the power to wage war, sign treaties, and establish trade deals?
Trading companies
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What were imported to Africa that allowed some societies in Africa to control and subjugate other groups?
Guns/firearms
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Who was a Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around Africa to Asia?
Vasco da Gama
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What did the importation of large amounts of silver/gold from the New World do to Spain's economy?
Caused massive inflation
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Where were trading posts established (geographically) in Africa and Asia? Why?
Along the coast; easy access for trade/reinforcement