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History
9th Grade
04/08/2013

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Moluccas
Definition
a group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500s and 1600s
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Prince Henry
Definition
Led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal, a small nation next to Spain.
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Cartographer
Definition
mapmaker
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Vasco da Gama
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was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.h
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Christopher Columbus
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An Itilian navigator from Genoa, wanted to reach the East Indies-a group of islands in Southeast Asia
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Line of Demarcation
Definition
dividing the non-European world into two zones.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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signed between the two countries in 1494
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Ferdinand Magellan
Definition
set out from Spain with five ships to find a way to reach the Pacific
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Circumnavigate
Definition
sail around the world
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Mombasa
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A city in southeastern Kenya
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Malindi
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is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
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Plantation
Definition
large estates run by an owner or an owners overseer- in the Americas and else-where
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Affonso 1
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ruler of Kingo in West central Africa
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Asante Kingdom
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emerged in the area occupied by present-day Ghana
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Oise Tutu
Definition
won control of the trading city of Kumaso
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Monopoly
Definition
exclusive control of a business or industry
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Cape town
Definition
the first permanent European settlement, to supply ships sailing to and from East Indies
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Boers
Definition
a descendant of any of the Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa, mainly in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal
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Macao
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region of southern China made up of a peninsula and two islands, a Portuguese territory from mid 1800s to 1999
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Guangzhou
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a coastal city in southeastern China, also known as Canton.
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Manchus
Definition
people orginally from Manchuria, north of China, who conquered the Ming dynasty and ruled China as the Quing dynasty from the mid 1600s to the early 1900s.
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Qing
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A dynasty established by the Manchus that ruled China 1644–1912 until overthrown by Sun Yat-sen and his supporters
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Lord Macrthney
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He brought samples of British made goods to show the Chinese the advantage of trade with Westerners.
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Nagasaki
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a coastal cuty 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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