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| a group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500-1600s |
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| led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal |
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| Portuguese navigator who led 4 ships around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 |
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| Italian navigator who sailed with 3 ships called the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria to the Indies but ended up in the Caribbean. |
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| line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal |
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| treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 which divided the non-European world between them |
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| a Portuguese nobleman who set out to find a way to reach the Pacific w/ 5 ships |
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| to travel completely around the world |
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| a coastal town in SE Kenya |
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| a colony or a new settlement |
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| ruler of Kongo in west-central Africa who was against slave trade. |
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| kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade |
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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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| complete control over something |
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| a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the SW part |
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| a South African of Dutch extraction. |
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| a Portuguese overseas territory in S China, in the delta of the Zhu Jiang River and including two small adjacent islands |
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| a coastal city in southeastern China, also known as Canton |
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| a brilliant Jesuit priest who made a particularly strong impression on the Chinese. |
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| a member of a Tungusic people of Manchuria who conquered China in the 17th century and established a dynasty there |
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| dynasty est. by the Manchus in the mid 1600s and lasted until the early 1900s; China's last dynasty |
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| head of a British diplomacy mission to start trade with the westerners in 1793. |
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| a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan |
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