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| 8090570364 | Trinidad | Magellan's flagship | 0 | |
| 8090576678 | Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki | In 1947 one energetic amateur historian of the sea, ... , argued that Easter Island and Hawaii were actually settled from the Americas. He sought to prove his theory by sailing his balsa-wood raft, ... , westward from Peru. | 1 | |
| 8090597673 | Hokulea | a 62 feet long double canoe patterned after old oceangoing canoes, powered by an inverted triangular sail and steered by paddles. It was able to sail across the winds at a sharp enough angle to make the difficult voyage. | 2 | |
| 8090614847 | Polynesian, Pacific | The ... people explored and settled lands over vast distances across the ... Ocean are one of the most impressive feats in maritime history before 1450. | 3 | |
| 8090760564 | Malayo-Indonesians, Indian, Madagascar | ... were sailing westward across the ... Ocean and colonizing the large island of ... off the southeastern coast of Africa. | 4 | |
| 8090852538 | Ming, Mongol | In 1368, the ... dynasty overthrew ... rule and began expansionist policies to reestablish China's predominance and prestige abroad. During their expedition, they filled their ships with great luxuries which represented China's wealth as well as weapons such as cannons and arrows. | 5 | |
| 8090885646 | Zheng He | (1371-1435). commander of the Ming expedition. A Chinese Muslim with ancestral connections to the Persian Gulf, he was a fitting emissary to the increasingly Muslim-dominated Indian Ocean basin. | 6 | |
| 8116681860 | Arawak | Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. | 7 | |
| 8116683378 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. | 8 | |
| 8116683379 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three=masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 9 | |
| 8116686157 | Gold Coast | (Africa) Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 10 | |
| 8116686159 | Bartolomeu Dias | (1450?-1500) Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. | 11 | |
| 8116688825 | (Vasco) da Gama | (1460?-1524) Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. | 12 | |
| 8116690942 | Christopher Columbus | (1451-1506) Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization. | 13 | |
| 8116692293 | Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 14 | |
| 8116701200 | conquistadors | soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire of the Portuguese Empire. | 15 | |
| 8116701201 | Hernan Cortes | (1485-1547) Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. | 16 | |
| 8116702407 | Moctezuma II | (1466?-1520) Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. | 17 | |
| 8116705387 | Atahualpa | (1502?-1533) Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. | 18 | |
| 8116732600 | Francisco Pizarro | (1475?-1541) Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533. | 19 | |
| 8116735492 | astrolabe | a tool that was used to measure the tilt of an object. | 20 | |
| 8116735493 | lateen sail | A triangular sail that was crucial during medieval navigation. | 21 | |
| 8116735494 | sextant | An instrument that was used to measure angular distances in between objects as well as taking altitudes in navigation. | 22 | |
| 8116742696 | Indonesians, Indian Ocean & Africa | 23 | ||
| 8116742697 | Vikings, Atlantic Ocean | 24 |
