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The movement begun by Martin Luther to purify the Christian church was known as the . 
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The agreement between Spain and divided the world into two spheres for exploration and prevented Spain from claiming all of the New World for itself. 
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The introduction of European diseases for which Native Americans had no immunity, plus their enslavement and hard labor, had a major impact on the native population and resulted in the tragedy known as the . 
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The Spanish extraction of immense amounts of from the New World vastly inflated prices throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. 
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England's colonization of in the 1560s and 1570s shaped their thinking on how to deal with "savage" peoples when they later colonized in North America. 
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In the fifteenth century, Europe was invigorated by a renewed interest in ideas, the arts, the past, and human capability called the . 
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Native Americans, unlike , believed that nature was sacred; that exploiting it was wrong; and that land should be held as communal property. 
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The revival of Europe is associated with the decline of the , the political and economic system that dominated Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. 
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From 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, Native Americans began to domesticate plants and develop a more reliable food source, a far-reaching process of cultural change called the . 
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One of the first large empires in West Africa, noted for its sculpture and metalwork, was the kingdom of . 
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Dating the advent of agriculture is difficult, but archaeologists estimate it at about . 
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Ceremonial masks played a pivotal place in the , a great winter gathering of the northwest peoples in ancient America. 
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of Portugal sponsored improvements in navigation and voyages of exploration in the fifteenth century.  
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Contact with Europeans proved disastrous for the Native Americans; their populations were decimated by European . 
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The primary organizing force for early English colonization in the New World were who, as capitalists, were largely motivated by a concern for profits. 
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Sir Walter Raleigh, a favorite in Queen Elizabeth's court, founded the "lost colony" of in 1587.  
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English Puritans who favored complete self-government for individual churches were later called . 
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England based its claims to the New World on the voyages and explorations of in 1497 and 1498. 
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Upon entering a new region of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors read the that called upon the Indians to recognize the sovereignty of the Spanish monarchy. 
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Many of the early settlers in the Carolinas were English colonists who had earlier settled on the West Indian island of . 
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Native American farmers grew corn, squash, and . 
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Most tribes located on the Atlantic Coast of North America belonged to a linguistic group known as . 
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Eric the Red's son, Leif, established a small settlement in North America in the tenth century called.  
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More maneuverable ships built in the fifteenth century with a new type of sail were called . 
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The , invented at some time in the 1430s by Johann Gutenberg, aided the spread of new knowledge. 
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In 1494, Pope Alexander VI divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal by issuing the . 
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The kings of Spain rewarded successful conquistadores with a grant of the labor of an Indian village. This grant was called an . 
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The were the first Europeans to exploit Africa for slaves. 
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The creation of powerful in Europe contributed to the advent of the age of exploration. 
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The teachings of John Calvin, especially the doctrine of predestination, contributed to the development of a religious group known as the who would become instrumental in the settlement of North America. 
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