AP Euro: Unit 2 (1648-1815) Review

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What were the results of the Protestant Reformation?

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It ended religious unity in Europe and started a century of religious warfare and persecution.

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A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

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Triangular Trade

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Spanish conquistador that defeated the Incan empire. Although the Incan King met his demands for rooms filled with gold & silver for the King's release. The King was strangled.

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Pizarro

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First man to led an expedition that circumnavigated the globe.

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Magellan

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

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Cortes

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Occurs when a country exports/sells more goods to other countries than it imports/buys from other countries

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Favorable balance of trade

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An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

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Mercantilism

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The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

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Columbian Exchange

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A small easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations.

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Caravel