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| What country explored Africa? |
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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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| Traders and ports raised prices how many times its orginal price? |
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| Who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? |
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| Where is the Cape of Good Hope? |
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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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| 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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| When did Columbus die still believing he had found Asia? |
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| What to countries signed the Treaty of Tordesalles to establish an imaginary border? |
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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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| Who made the first circumnavigation? |
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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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| Who challenged Ptolemy's belief of an earth centered universe and said it was usn centered? |
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| Who developed stronger and larger telescope and was the first to observe sunspots, Jupiter's moons, and Saturn's rings? |
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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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| What is another term for the Enlightment? |
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| Who were 2 early english thinkers? |
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| Thomas Hobbes and John Locke |
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| What was Tomas Hobbes idea? |
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| 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? |
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| 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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| Who opposed the Enlightment ideas? |
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| What was the first permanent english settlement? Where and when. |
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| Jamestown, Virgina in 1607 |
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| When did Pilgrims settle in Plymouth? |
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| What was the name of the ship that the pilgrims came over on? |
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| Who founded MAssachusetts, Rhode ISland, Connecticut, and New Hampshire? |
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| Who founded Pennsylvania? |
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| Quakers and other persecuted religious groups |
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| How many original colonies were there? |
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| What act forced colonists to pay taxes on newspapers and printed materials? |
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| What is known as the Boston Massacre? |
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| British tropps fired into a crowd of protestion colonists, killed 5 people. |
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| What is the Result of the Tea Act? |
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| What was an Intolerable Act? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| When did congress issue the Declaration of Independence? |
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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
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| How did Britain recognize American independence? |
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| Who was the first President? |
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| What are the certain rights of citizens that the gov. couldn't violate? |
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| Bill of Rights (first 10 ammendments) |
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