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Age of Exploration
Exploration
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History
9th Grade
04/08/2013

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Moluccas
Definition
A group of islands in an eastern Inonesia.
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Prince Henry
Definition
Led the way in sponsering exploration for Portugal, a nation next to Spain.
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Cartographer
Definition
Map maker
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Vasco da Gama
Definition
Followed in Dias's footsteps, leading four ships aroun the Cape of Good Hope.
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Wated to reach the East Indies, a group of islands in Southeast Asia, today part of Inonesia- by sailing west across the Alantic.
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Line of Demarcation
Definition
Dividing the non-European world into two worlds.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 which divided the non-European world between them.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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A porugese nobleman who set out to find a way to reach the Pacific with 5 ships.
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Circumnavigate
Definition
to travel completely around the world.
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Mombasa
Definition
An island in South Kenya.
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Malindi
Definition
A coastal town in Southeast Kenya.
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Plantation
Definition
A colony or a new settlement.
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Affonoso I
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ruler of Kongo in west-central Africa who was against slave trade.
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Asante kingdom
Definition
Kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade.
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Oise Tutu
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an able military leader who won control of the trading city of Kumasi in the late 1600s. And unified the Asante Kingdom by conquering neighboring people.
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Monoply
Definition
complete control of a product or business by one person or group.
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Cape town
Definition
Seaport city and legislative capital of South Africa.
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Boers
Definition
Dutch people who settled in Cape Town, Africa, and eventually migrated inland.
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Macao
Definition
Region of SE China made up of a peninsula and two islands, a Portuguese territory from the mid-1800s to 1999.
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Guangzhou
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A coastal city in SE China, also known as Canton.
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Matteo Ricci
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a brilliant Jesuit priest who made a particularly strong impression on the Chinese.
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Manchus
Definition
People originally from Manchuria, north of China, who conquered the Ming dynasty and ruled China as the Qing dynasty from the mid-1600s to the early 1900.
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Qing
Definition
Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600s and lasted until the early 1900s.
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Lord Macartney
Definition
head of a British diplomacy mission to start trade with the westerners in 1793.
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Nagasaki
Definition
A coastal city in S Japan on the island of Kyushu.
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