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| 5884999637 | Alfonso d'Alboquerque | Commander of Portuguese forces in the Indian Ocean responsible for Portuguese Hegemony in the region | 0 | |
| 5885008676 | Cristoforo Colombo | Genoese mariner who attempted to shorten the journey to the asian trade markets by traveling directly west across the Atlantic. His miscalculation led him to uncharted land he believed to be were Asians islands, which in fact were the Caribbean Islands. | 1 | |
| 5885026776 | Captain James Cook | Led three expeditions to the Pacific. Cook charted eastern Australia and New Zealand, Pacific islands and Arctic waters as well as collecting ethnographic materials about the lands and peoples he encountered. | 2 | |
| 5885050770 | Bartolomeu Dias | The first Portuguese navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Indian Ocean, opening the route to India, China and the islands of southeast Asia | 3 | |
| 5885062736 | Vasco da Gama | Led a fleet of four ships from Lisbon to India and successfully returned with a cargo of pepper and cinnamon that would motivate more European merchants to make the journey east. | 4 | |
| 5885077841 | Prince Henry the Navigator | promoted voyages of exploration in west Africa specifically to enter the gold trade, find new trade routes, collect intelligence on Muslim power and spread Christianity. | 5 | |
| 5885089809 | Ferdinand Magellan (1519-1522) | Explored the Pacific and circumnavigated the world in the service of Spain. | 6 | |
| 5885113265 | Astrolabe | A simplified version of an instrument used by Greek and Persian astronomers to determine latitude by measuring the angle of the sun or the pole star above the horizon. | 7 | |
| 5885122645 | Calicut | Portuguese trading port in India | 8 | |
| 5885125719 | Circumnavigation | Complete voyage around the world, beginning at a specific point and ending at the same point. Magellan completed the first circumnavigation of the world. | 9 | |
| 5885143332 | Columbian exchange | Global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens that took place after voyages of exploration by Columbus. | 10 | |
| 5885168718 | cross staffs | Instruments used by mariners to measure the angle of the sun or the pole star above the horizon and determine latitude. | 11 | |
| 5885177830 | joint stock companies | Companies funded by private merchants, providing funds for ships, crews and supplies. These private merchants would also provide merchants with commodities and money to trade. | 12 | |
| 5885192007 | magnetic compass | A Chinese invention of the Tang or Song dynasty that had diffused throughout the Indian Ocean Basin in the eleventh century. | 13 | |
| 5885203262 | Seven Years' War | Global conflict (1756-1763) that included Asians, indigenous American people and Europeans. Sometimes called the "Great War for Empire", it laid the foundations for British hegemony in the world. | 14 | |
| 5885214122 | Smallpox | one of several infectious and contagious virgin soil diseases that ravaged the populations of the Americas due to their lack of exposure and immunity. These diseases were responsible for reducing indigenous populations of the Americans by 95% | 15 | |
| 5885228171 | trade winds | Strong wind patterns blowing from the northeast that complicated travel and forced mariners to take indirect routes. | 16 | |
| 5885234896 | Volta do mar | The strategy employed by mariners in their return journeys, avoiding sailing against slow and perilous trade winds. | 17 | |
| 5885242968 | wind wheels | Strong wind patterns in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, north and south of the equator, used by mariners to direct voyages. | 18 | |
| 5885261845 | John Calvin | `French lawyer who converted to Protestant Christianity and organized a Protestant community in Geneva, Switzerland. His community was founded on the principles of strict morality and discipline. | 19 |
