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Title: Sugarcane


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Sugarcane
  • Europeans enslaved millions of Africans to plant
    and harvest this crop

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Christopher Columbus
  • Believed he could reach Asia by sailing west
    across the Atlantic Ocean

3
Representative government
  • System in which people elect delegates to conduct
    government

4
Hernan Cortes
  • Destroyed the Aztec empire

5
Marco Polo
  • Spent 17 years in China working for Kublai Khan

6
astrolabe
  • Measured the position of the stars

7
Thomas Hobbes
  • Argued absolute monarchy was the best form of
    government

8
Thomas Aquinas
  • Believed reason should be used to explore
    questions of faith

9
Mercantilism
  • Theory that a nation becomes powerful by building
    up a supply of gold and silver

10
Capitalism
  • System in which money is invested in business to
    make more money

11
Martin Luther
  • Criticized Catholic teachings and practices

12
Vasco da Gama
  • Portuguese explorer who completed the eastern sea
    route to Asia

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circumnavigate
  • Sail around the world

14
Scientific method
  • An orderly way of collecting and analyzing
    evidence

15
Crusades
  • Series of holy wars that increased trade

16
Joint-stock companies
  • Organizations of stockholders formed to share
    profits and risks of ventures

17
Missions
  • Religious communities that included a town,
    farmland, and a church

18
Charles de Montesquieu
  • Argued governments needed separation of powers

19
Columbian Exchange
  • Global exchange of people, goods, technology,
    ideas, and diseases

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Ten Commandments
  • Influenced the moral laws of many nations
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