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| A commercial entrepot, where good were shipped for temporary storing during non-sailing seasons. Located on the south China Sea |
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| A place where goods being shipped internationally would be stored until the next monsoon season, when they could be sent by ship. |
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| A European trader and explorer who traveled to the "Orient" from 1271 to 1295. He alledgedly encountered the Great Khan. |
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| The Chinese dynasty that ended the Mongol empire in 1368. During this time, China experienced a period of agricultural and commercial expansion, population growth, and urbanization. |
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| A Chinese naval leader who led seven voyages to achieve Emporer Yongle's diplomatic, commercial, and political goals, between 1405 and 1433. He sailed as far west as Egypt, and brought back all sorts of goods. |
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| A powerful African empire that lasted from 1250 to its defeat by the Ottomans in the 1500's. Its capital Cairo was the center of Islamic learning and Indian ocean trade goods. |
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| A powerful leader of the kingdom of Mali: the successor to Sundieta Kieta, who traveled to Mecca in 1324. He traveled with a caravan of 60,000 people. |
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| The Sultan of the Ottoman empire who ruled from 1451 to 1481. Under him, the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453, and conquered the rest of present-day Turkey. |
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| Sultan of the Ottoman empire, successor to Mohammed II. Under Suleiman I, the Ottomans conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa. They attempted to seige Vienna, but failed. |
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| Ruler of the Persian Safavid empire. Under Shah Abbas I, the Safavids competed with the Ottomans for economic control of eastern trade routes. This led to the Ottoman-Safavid war of 1615 - 1618. |
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| The Indian ocean spice trade that was at first controlled by Venice and Genoa, then Ottomans, then Portugese, then Dutch. This was a considerable source of $$$ |
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| A survivor of Magellan's world circumnavigation, who lived to detail the voyage |
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| The legendary explorer who "discovered" the Americas (landed in the Bahamas in 1492). |
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| The explorer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope and reached India in 1498. |
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| The Spanish explorer who landed in Mexico and conquered the Aztec empire. |
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| Prince Henry the Navigator (of Portugal) |
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| The royal financer of Portugal's voyages, and the cause of its success in the spice trade. |
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| General History of the Indies (1547) |
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| A book by Gonzalo Fernandex de Oviedo, with eyewitness accounts of plants, animals, and foreign peoples. |
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| Narrow, open boats that were propelled by manpower. They couldn't withstand rough winds or shoals. |
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| A small, light, three-masted ship. It was slower than the galley, but held much more cargo. When fitted with cannons, it could dominate larger vessels. |
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| Iron or bronze guns that fired iron or stone balls -- fully developed by 1350 |
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| A book written by Ptolemy that gathered all the ancient geographical knowledge and combined it into an atlas. |
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| An instrument for determining the hour of night at sea by finding the progress of certain stars around the center apeture. |
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| Atlantic islands settled by the Portugese in 1420 and 1427 respectively. |
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| Under this king, the Portugese established trading posts on the Guinea coast and went all the way to Timbuktu. By 1500, Portugal controlled the flow of African gold to Europe. |
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| An explorer who tried to round the Cape of Good Hope but had to turn back because of storms and threatened mutiny, in 1487. |
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| The King of Portugal, who dispatched 13 ships to set up trading posts in India after Vasco da Gama reached it. |
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| The Portugese governor of India (appointed by the Portuguese crown) from 1509 - 1515. |
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| Written descriptions of the courses along which ships sailed: they showed bays, coves, capes, and ports. |
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| A series of documents signed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain: these appointed Christopher Colombus the viceroy of the territory he might discover on his voyage. |
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| A Florentine navigator who wrote about his discoveries on the coast of modern-day Venezuela; America was named for him. |
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| Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) |
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| The treaty drawn up by Pope Alexander VI that gave Spain everything to the west of an imaginary line drawn down the Atlantic Ocean, and Portugal everything to the east (this gave Portugal Brazil) |
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| A Portugese mariner who circumnavigated the globe (taking almost 3 years). |
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| A Genoese merchant who tried to sail for Brazil, but discovered Newfoundland in 1497. |
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| A Frenchman who made several voyages between 1534 and 1541, exploring the St. Lawrence region of Canada. |
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| The capital of the Aztec Empire (current day Mexico City) |
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