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| 148885096 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. | 0 | |
| 148885097 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506). | 1 | |
| 148885098 | Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Portuguese navigator. While trying to find a western route to Asia, he was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | 2 | |
| 148885099 | East Indies Companies | Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia, acted as virtually independent government in regions it claimed. | 3 | |
| 148885100 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 4 | |
| 148885101 | Lepanto | Naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman Empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571; demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims. | 5 | |
| 148885102 | Vasco de Balboa | (1475-1519) First spanish captain to begin settlement on the mainland of Mesoamerica in 1509; initial settlement eventually led to conquest of Aztec and Inca empires by other captains. | 6 | |
| 148885103 | New France | French colonies in North America; extended from St. Lawrence River along Great Lakes and down Mississippi River valley system. | 7 | |
| 148885104 | Atlantic Colonies | British colonies in North America along Atlantic coast from New England to Georgia. | 8 | |
| 148885105 | Treaty of Paris | Arranged in 1763 following the Seven Years War; granted New France to England in exchange for return of French sugar island in Caribbean. | 9 | |
| 148885106 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for the Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with Bantus. | 10 | |
| 148885107 | Boers | Dutch settlers in South Africa. | 11 | |
| 148885108 | Seven Years War | Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. (1756-1763) | 12 | |
| 148885109 | Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. | 13 | |
| 148885110 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that stressed governments promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues. | 14 | |
| 148885111 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory. | 15 | |
| 148885112 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). | 16 | |
| 148885113 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704). | 17 | |
| 148885114 | William Shakespeare | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616). | 18 |
