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. European motivations for exploration included _____.

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. European long distance ships borrowed technology from _____.

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. The Portuguese were driven to expand primarily by the pull of opportunities abroad.

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. Columbus saw the first Native Americans he encountered primarily as _____.

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. Bartolome de las Casas fought against _____.

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. The first European to figure out that the Americas were not part of Asia was _____.

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. The term for the massive interoceanic transfer of animals, plants, and diseases that followed the discovery of the New World is _____.

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. The aspect of the Spanish conquest that decimated the Aztec people more than any other was _____.

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. When Pizarro marched into the Andes, Atawallpa had been Sapa Inca for _____.

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. The many Spanish advantages, like superior weapons and horses, along with the impact of European germs, allowed them to defeat the Aztecs and Incas.

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. Mining was hard work, and relied primarily on _____.

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. Silver from the Americas funded the expansion of the Catholic Church worldwide.

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. Conversion to Catholicism among Native Americans was limited primarily by _____.

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. The stimulus for the shift from small-scale trading outpost to settled plantation agriculture in Brazil was _____.

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. Brazil's first export was ____.

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. Sugar was native to the Americas.

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. Sugar making has been described as an early modern precursor to industrial production because of its _____.

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. The Mapuche stopped proclaiming their independence in _____.

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. The warlike Mapuche culture played a large part in their resistance to conquest.

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. The Mapuche adopted Old World products, for example _____.

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