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104157815Zheng HeAn 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.0
104157816ArawakAmerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus.1
104157817Henry the Navigator(1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.2
104157818CaravelA small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.3
104157819Gold CoastRegion of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.4
104157820Bartolomeu DiasPortuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.5
104157821Vasco da gamaPortuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.6
104157822Christopher columbusItalian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (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.7
104157823Ferdinand MagellanPortuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.8
104157824ConquistadorsEarly-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru.9
104157825Hernan cortesSpanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.10
104157826Moctezuma IILast Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.11
104157827Francisco PizarroSpanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)12
104157828atahualpaLast ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish.13

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