Exploration and Inventions

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First person to set foot on an island in the Americas

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Christopher Columbus

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Monk who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians

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Bartolomé de las Casas

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Chinese invention that allowed sailors to know which direction to sail

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The compass

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What the quadrant helped sailors determine

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angle of the sun

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Explorer of the coast of Africa for Portugal

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Dias

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Who wanted to be the first to sail from Europe to India?

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da Gama

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settlement governed by Peter Stuyvesant and named its capital city New Amsterdam

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New Netherlands

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who eventually declared that American Indians are humans with souls?

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Pope

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What did Columbus persuade his sailors to do when they became restless?

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persevere

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What is a group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods called?

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caravan