122857724 | Polynesians | originated in Asia; settled on islands in the pacific; | 0 | |
122857725 | long distance travel | improved navigational skills=? | 1 | |
122857726 | Indian ocean | used for trade and colonization; coves and safe paths for travel; less difficult to use dows | 2 | |
122857727 | boat | dows | 3 | |
122857728 | Admiral Zheng | i. 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 explorations | 4 | |
122857729 | 3 G's | Gold, Glory, God | 5 | |
122857730 | Gold | (reason) wealth, spices, natural resources, silver, mercantilism | 6 | |
122857731 | Glory | (reason) individual achievement; humanism origins | 7 | |
122857732 | God | (reason) spreading Christianity; converting natives to Christianity | 8 | |
122857733 | caravel | new, faster ship; triangular sails; bilge system to help ship float higher | 9 | |
122857734 | Vasco de Gama | x, 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 world | 10 | |
122857735 | Christopher Columbus | "to discover and acquire certain islands and mainlands in the ocean sea" | 11 | |
122857736 | Americo Vespucci | This explorer/ sailor discovered many of the biggest rivers in the world, America was named after him | 12 | |
122857737 | Treaty of Tordesilas | divided the new world between Portuguese and Spain | 13 | |
122857738 | Ferdinand 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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