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| 5927892238 | Moluccas | a group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500s and 1600s | 0 | |
| 5927892239 | Cartographer | mapmaker | 1 | |
| 5927892240 | Prince Henry aka Henry the Navigator | (1394 - 1460) Prince of Portugal and patron of exploration; he made no voyages himself but spent his life directing voyages of discovery along the African coast | 2 | |
| 5927892241 | Vasco da Gama | (c. 1469 - 1524) Portuguese navigator; in 1497 - 1499, he became the first European to sail around Africa and reach India by sea | 3 | |
| 5927892242 | Christopher Columbus | (1451 - 1506) Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, who reached the Americas in 1492 while searching for a western sea route from Europe to Asia | 4 | |
| 5927892243 | Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa beginning with the voyages of Columbus | 5 | |
| 5927892244 | Diaspora | a scattering of people | 6 | |
| 5927892245 | Conquistador | Spanish explorer who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s | 7 | |
| 5927892246 | Peninsulares | members of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas; colonists who were born in Spain or Portugal | 8 | |
| 5927892247 | Creole | person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendent of Spainish settlers. | 9 | |
| 5927892248 | Mestizo | person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent. | 10 | |
| 5927892249 | Mulatto | in Spain's colonies in the Americas, a person who was of African and European descent. | 11 | |
| 5927892250 | Line of Demarcation | a line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal. | 12 | |
| 5927892251 | Missionary | someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country. | 13 | |
| 5927892252 | Plantation | large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there | 14 | |
| 5927892253 | Ferdinand Magellan | (c. 1480 - 1521) Portuguese navigator; his ships were the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died on the journey. | 15 | |
| 5927892254 | Circumnavigate | to proceed completely around | 16 | |
| 5927892255 | Qianlong | (1711 - 1799) Emperor of the Qing dynasty from 1735 to 1796; during his reign, China expanded to its greatest size. He limited foreign contacts and ordered traders to conduct business with the Chinese government, not with private merchants. | 17 | |
| 5927892256 | Mughal | a Muslim empire in India (1526 - 1761) founded by Babur; ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500s to the mid 1700s; also known as the Mogul. | 18 | |
| 5927892257 | Ming | Chinese empire; in 1368, a rebel Chinese army pushed the Mongols back beyond the Great Wall and established a new dynasty, the Ming meaning brilliant; while European interest in China and other parts of East Asia continued to grow during the 1500s, the Ming had no interest in Europe -since, as a Ming document proclaimed, "our empire owns the world." The Ming fell in the 1600s with the Manchu conquest. | 19 | |
| 5927892258 | Qing | dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600s and lasted until the early 1900s; China's last dynasty. | 20 | |
| 5927892259 | Ottoman | ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire (1293 - 1922); named for Osman I, the founder; at the Empire's height, the Ottomans ruled a vast area that encompassed southwest Asia, northeast Africa, and southeast Europe. | 21 | |
| 5927892260 | Mali | West African kingdom that emerged by 1250; controlled both the gold-mining regions to the south and the salt supplies of the Sahara; weakened in the 1400s. | 22 | |
| 5927892261 | Songhai | as Mali weakened in the 1400s, this new West African kingdom emerged; controlled trade routes, wealthy cities and became a leading center for learning; prospered until about 1586. | 23 | |
| 5927892262 | Tokugawa | in 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan until 1868; Tokugawas brought peace and stability to Japan; experienced sharp conflict with foreigners arriving in the 1500s. | 24 | |
| 5927892263 | Safavid | By the 1500s, the Safavids, a Turkish-speaking Muslim dynasty, had united a strong empire in present-day Iran; revived the glory of ancient Persia; became a center for the international silk trade; ruled until the 1700s. | 25 | |
| 5927892264 | Aztecs | Several hundred years after the decline of the Maya civilization, the Aztecs conquered most of Mexico; by 1500, the Aztec empire numbered about 30 million people; would eventually be conquered by the Spanish. | 26 | |
| 5927892265 | Maya | early civilization in Central America | 27 | |
| 5927892266 | Inca | South American empire stretching 2,500 miles down the Andes Mountains and along the Pacific coast; created one of the great road systems in history - even more extensive than that of ancient Rome; fell to the Spanish in the 1500s. | 28 |
