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Exploration
World History
27
History
9th Grade
04/08/2013

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Moluccas
Definition
An island chain in present day Indonesia
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Prince Henry
Definition
Led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal
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Cartographers
Definition
map marker
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Vasco da Gama
Definition
Portuguese navigator
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Italian navigator from Genoa
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Line of Demarcation
Definition
Dividing non-European world into two zones
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Treaty of Tordesillas
Definition
Signed between the two countries in 1494; specific terms of the line of demarcation
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Ferdinand Magellan
Definition
Portuguese nobleman set of Spain with five ships to reach the Pacific Ocean
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Circumnavigate
Definition
Sail around the world
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Mombasa
Definition
East African coastal city
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Malindi
Definition
A coastal town in SE Kenya
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Plantation
Definition
Large estate run by a owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there
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Affonso I
Definition
Ruler of Kongo in west central Africa
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Missionaries
Definition
People who hoped to convert Africans to Christianity
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Asante Kingdom
Definition
Emerged in the area occupied by present day Ghana
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Osei Tutu
Definition
Military leader who won control of the trading city of Kumasi
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Monopoly
Definition
Exclusive control of a business or industry
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Oyo Empire
Definition
Arose from successive waves of settlement by the Yoruba people of present day Nigeria
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Cape Town
Definition
First permanent European settlement to supply ships sailing
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Boers
Definition
Dutch farmers
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Macao
Definition
Trading post near Canton; present day Guangzhou
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Guangzhou
Definition
Coastal city in southeastern China; also known as Canton
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Matteo Ricci
Definition
Jesuit priest
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Manchus
Definition
People originally from Manchuria north of China; who conquered the Ming dynasty
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Qing
Definition
Manchus set up a new dynasty
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Lord Macartney
Definition
In 1793 arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mission
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Nagasaki
Definition
Coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu; city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945
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