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Flashcards by mdeleon-tomas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mdeleon-tomas
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Age of Discovery | 1450-1650 |
| Motives for Exploration | The 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold" |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Portugal made yearly trips to West Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration |
| Christopher Columbus sails west | Columbus believes he is the West Indies Discovers the New World |
| Effects of his discovery | native population wiped out by European diseases like smallpox causes the importation of slaves from Africa. |
| Ferdinand Magellan: | 1st explorer to "circumnavigate" (sail around) the world |
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