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| 295835705 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim explorer from Morocco; known for his extensive travels | 0 | |
| 295835706 | Marco Polo | A Venetian merchant whose book introduced Europeans to China and central Asia | 1 | |
| 295835707 | Colombian Exchange | A widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, slaves, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World. | 2 | |
| 295835708 | Bubonic Plague | A disease that was the cause of the Black Death | 3 | |
| 295835709 | Hongwu | Founder of the Ming dynasty of China | 4 | |
| 295835710 | Eunuchs | A person born male and castrated | 5 | |
| 295835711 | Fernando and Isabel | Known for completing the Reconquista | 6 | |
| 295835712 | Reconquista | Crusade, ending in 1492, to drive the Islamic forces out of Spain | 7 | |
| 295835713 | Erasmus | He publicized in 1516 a Greek-Latin New Testament. | 8 | |
| 295835714 | Zheng He | Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty, he led great voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia | 9 | |
| 295835715 | Atlantic Slave Trade | The buying, transporting, and selling of africans for work in the Americas | 10 | |
| 295835716 | Vasco da Gama | The first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa. | 11 | |
| 295835717 | Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope | 12 | |
| 295835718 | Inca | Powerful South American empire that would reach its peak in the 15th century | 13 | |
| 295835719 | Aztec | Central American empire constructed by the Mexica and expanded greatly during the 15th century | 14 | |
| 295835720 | New Navigational Instruments | Compasses and astrolabes that made it easier for sailors | 15 | |
| 295835721 | Prince Henry | Led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal | 16 | |
| 295835722 | Magellan | This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world | 17 | |
| 295835723 | James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands | 18 | |
| 295835724 | Joint Stock Company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. | 19 | |
| 295835725 | United East India Company | Chartered to control Dutch trading and to achieve a monopoly between the Cape of Good Hope and the Magellan straits | 20 | |
| 295835726 | Manila | A bustling multicultural port city that quickly became the hub of Spanish commercial activity in Asia | 21 | |
| 295835727 | Siberia | The part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia which is subarctic | 22 | |
| 295835728 | Seven Years' War | Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land; known in America as the French and Indian War | 23 | |
| 295835729 | John Calvin | This was a leader in the Reformation who believed in a simple faith and a simple method of worship | 24 | |
| 295835730 | The Council of Trent | The group that met to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other reformers | 25 | |
| 295835731 | St. Ignatius Loyola | a Spainard who founded the religious order of Jesuits in the early A.D. 1530s | 26 | |
| 295835732 | The Thirty Years' War | Conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families. | 27 | |
| 295835733 | King Phillip II | King of Spain who sent the Armada to attack England, he failed leading to the end of Spanish dominance in Europe | 28 | |
| 295835734 | Henry VIII | Launched the English Protestant Reformation when he broke from the church in the 1530s | 29 | |
| 295835735 | Spanish Inquisition | Brutal campaign led by Roman Catholic Church to punish nonbelievers including Jews and Muslims | 30 | |
| 295835736 | The English Civil War | War in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I | 31 | |
| 295835737 | The Glorious Revolution | In this bloodless revolution, the English Parliament and William and Mary agreed to overthrow James II for the sake of Protestantism. This led to a constitutional monarchy and the drafting of the English Bill of Rights. | 32 | |
| 295835738 | The Sun King | A nickname for Louis XIV that captures the magnificence of his court and of the Palace of Versailles, which he built. Louis himself adopted the sun as his emblem. | 33 | |
| 295835739 | Versailles | A palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris | 34 | |
| 295835740 | Catherine II | Seized throne from weak husband. Greatly influenced by Western European thinkers, considered freeing serfs, significantly expanded borders to the south and secured a warm-water port on the Black Sea | 35 | |
| 295835741 | Peter I | Czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government | 36 | |
| 295835742 | Peace of Westphalia | The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War | 37 | |
| 295835743 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations and designed modern Capitalism; known as the father of capitalism | 38 | |
| 295835744 | Ptolemy | Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe | 39 | |
| 295835745 | Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars | 40 | |
| 295835746 | Kepler | This mathematician and astronomer helped prove the sun-centered theory of the universe and said that planets orbited the sun in an eliptical manner | 41 | |
| 295835747 | Copernicus | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center | 42 | |
| 295835748 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience | 43 | |
| 295835749 | Isaac Newton | Discovered gravity, laws of motion, calculus | 44 | |
| 295835750 | Philosophies | Study of the processes and relationships of thought and the universe | 45 | |
| 295835751 | Voltaire | French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment | 46 | |
| 295835752 | Enlightenment | A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | 47 |
