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| 10737561592 | Vasco Da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. |  | 0 |
| 10737565797 | Bartholomeu Dias (1450-1500) | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) |  | 1 |
| 10737572384 | Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) | -Commissioned by Charles V to find a route to the spice island of Moluccas -Sailed south to Brazil and around Cape Horn into the Pacific -Sailed to the Malay Archipelago -Was killed at Malay -His crew continued and returned to Spain in 1522 from the east -Verified that the earth was round -He is credited with being the first person to circulate the world |  | 2 |
| 10737588676 | Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | The Italian sailor who persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to fund his expedition across the Atlantic to discover a new trade route to Asia. Instead of arriving at China or Japan, he reached the Bahamas in 1492. |  | 3 |
| 10737599486 | Atahualpa (1502-1533) | -last Incan emperor -gained power by defeating his brother in a civil war -died during a conquest and shortly after that the Incan empire fell | 4 | |
| 10737606052 | *Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.) |  | 5 |
| 10737612143 | Montezuma II | The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach, just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520. |  | 6 |
| 10737618901 | Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) | Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed Mexico for Spain |  | 7 |
| 10737618902 | Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia |  | 8 |
| 10737624743 | *Triangle Trade | a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa |  | 9 |
| 10737632013 | *Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |  | 10 |
| 10737636541 | *Joint Stock Companies | businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |  | 11 |
| 10737641664 | *Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought |  | 12 |
| 10737646162 | *Favorable Balance of Trade | an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad |  | 13 |
| 10737650168 | Zheng He | (1371-1433?) Chinese naval explorer who sailed along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death. |  | 14 |
| 10737653244 | The Forbidden City | The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China. |  | 15 |
| 10737658447 | Daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai; warlord but not as powerful as a shogun. |  | 16 |
| 10737663551 | Tokugawa Shogunate | was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo, which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868, when it was abolished during the Meiji Restoration. |  | 17 |
| 10737667639 | *Columbia Exchange | the transfer pf plants, animals, and disease between the American and Europe, Asia and Africa |  | 18 |
| 10737677594 | *Encomienda System | It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity |  | 19 |
| 10737681220 | *Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital |  | 20 |
| 10737686362 | *Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. |  | 21 |
| 10737688959 | Dutch East India Company | Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies. 17th century |  | 22 |
| 10737705776 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). |  | 23 |
| 10737709302 | Treaty of Tordesillas | A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |  | 24 |
| 10737712219 | Line of Demarcation | This was the line drawn by Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America |  | 25 |
| 10737716442 | Colonies | a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. |  | 26 |
| 10737720938 | Amerigo Vespucci | Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America |  | 27 |
| 10737725392 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. |  | 28 |
