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36 Cards in this Set
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Moluccas |
island chain in the present-day Indonesia formerly known as the Spice Islands |
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Prince Henry |
led Portugal in exploration; started a navigation school |
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cartographer |
mapmaker |
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Vasco da Gama |
Portuguese explorer who led ships around the Cape of Good Hope |
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Christopher Columbus |
Italian navigator sailing for Spain who reached the New World |
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Line of Demarcation |
line drawn by the pope to divide the New World into a Spanish zone and a Portuguese zone |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
lined out the specific terms of the Line of Demarcation |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
first to circumnavigate the globe |
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circumnavigate |
to sail around the world |
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Mombasa and Malindi |
East African coastal cities that were hubs of international trade |
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plantation |
large estate run by the owner often using slave labor |
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Alfonso I |
ruler of Kongo |
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missionary |
one sent to convert others to a religion |
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Asante kingdom |
emerged in present-day Ghana |
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Osei Tutu |
military leader who won control of the city of Kumasi |
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monopoly |
exclusive control of a business or industry |
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Oyo empire |
settled by the Yoruba in present-day Nigeria |
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Cape Town |
first permanent European settlement in Africa |
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Boers |
Dutch farmers |
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Afonso de Albuquerque |
commanded a Portuguese fleet and also burned coastal towns and destroyed Arab fleets in the Indian Ocean |
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Mughal empire |
empire established by Muslim rulers in India |
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Goa |
became the major military and commercial base off the coast of India for the Portuguese |
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Malacca |
port city where a massacre of Muslims took place in 1511 |
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outpost |
distant area under control of another country |
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Dutch East India Company |
group of wealthy Dutch merchants who began expeditions in the Indies |
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sovereign |
having full, independent power |
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Philippines |
archipelago claimed by Magellan for Portugal |
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sepoys |
Indian troops |
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Macao |
trading post allowed by the Ming Dynasty near Canton |
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Guangzhou |
present-day name of Canton |
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Matteo Ricci |
Jesuit priest who made a strong impression on the Chinese |
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Manchus |
rulers of Manchuria |
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Qing |
Manchu dynasty in China |
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Qianlong |
Chinese emperor who expanded China's borders |
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Lord McCartney |
head of the British delegation to China |
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Nagasaki |
port city in Japan |
