SS6H6 (a)

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Brazil was a ____________ colony until 1822.
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___________ was an Italian explorer who was given ships and men to try to find a passage across teh Atlantic Ocean to Asia.
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The Portuguese wanted to find a route around Africa into the __________ Ocean.
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The Crusades _________________ successful, but they help them learn how to draw better maps and build better ______.
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In the 1500s, Spain claimed huge areas of _____________ and ruled certain parts for over three hundred years.
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The Spanish and British empires were two of the ___________ empires in history.
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Which Italian cities dominated the trade routes from Asia to Europe for a long time?
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Christopher Columbus discovered ____________.
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By the 1700s, England, Scotland, and Wales became known as ____________.
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Prince Henry studied navigation and __________.
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The ___________ were military expeditions sent by different Popes to capture the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks.
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Prince Henry was unable to make money selling __________, but he was able to make money selling___________.
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The benefits of the Crusades contributed to the __________ of Portugal, Spain, England, and France.
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The Portuguese wanted to spread ________ along Africa's west coast.
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Europeans wanted to get Asian silks and ________ at a ________ cost.
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Portugal grew wealthy from its trade route around _______ to Asia.
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By the 1900s, ________ was one of the world's dominant empires.
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During the fifteenth century, Portugal led the world in ______ exploration.
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The expansion of the sugar cane economy encouraged a _____ trade that lasted another four hundred years.
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It was said that "The sun never sets on the ________ empire," because it was always daylight at one of its's locations.
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During the reign of Napoleon l, ____________ dominated much of the European continent.
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__________ established the earliest of the modern European colonial empires.