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| 267115857 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. (pp. 355, 422) | 0 | |
| 267115858 | Arawak | a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America, Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. (p. 423) | 1 | |
| 267115859 | Henry the navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. | 2 | |
| 267115860 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 3 | |
| 267115861 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 4 | |
| 267115862 | Bartolomeu Dias | 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. (p. 428) | 5 | |
| 267115863 | Vasco De Gama | sailed for Portugal, first European to sail from Europe around the southern tip of Africa and reach India. When he got to India they were not interested in his cargo but he managed to sell them anyways. When he returned, his cargo of spices were 1000x more in value. He only returned back with a few ships, and he barely made it back alive himself | 6 | |
| 267115864 | Christopher Columbus | 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. | 7 | |
| 267115865 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 8 | |
| 267115866 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (See Cort?s, Hern?n; Pizarro, Francisco.) (p. 436) | 9 | |
| 267115867 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. | 10 | |
| 267115868 | Moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. | 11 | |
| 267115869 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438) | 12 | |
| 267115870 | Francisco Pizarro | A Spanish Explorer who arrived in Peru in 1532 AD and had conquered the Incan Empire by 1535 AD | 13 |
