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122857724Polynesiansoriginated in Asia; settled on islands in the pacific;0
122857725long distance travelimproved navigational skills=?1
122857726Indian oceanused for trade and colonization; coves and safe paths for travel; less difficult to use dows2
122857727boatdows3
122857728Admiral Zhengi. Commanded over 28,000 sailors and 262 ships ii. Explored coasts of southwest Asia, India, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf iii. Set up permanent trading centers with Asian and African explorations4
1228577293 G'sGold, Glory, God5
122857730Gold(reason) wealth, spices, natural resources, silver, mercantilism6
122857731Glory(reason) individual achievement; humanism origins7
122857732God(reason) spreading Christianity; converting natives to Christianity8
122857733caravelnew, faster ship; triangular sails; bilge system to help ship float higher9
122857734Vasco de Gamax, A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean and to have led the first voyage around the world10
122857735Christopher Columbus"to discover and acquire certain islands and mainlands in the ocean sea"11
122857736Americo VespucciThis explorer/ sailor discovered many of the biggest rivers in the world, America was named after him12
122857737Treaty of Tordesilasdivided the new world between Portuguese and Spain13
122857738Ferdinand Magellan(1480?-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. (The same year HRE Charles V became empreor.) Magellan was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.14

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