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| 11855791390 | Afonso de Albuquerque | Portuguese naval/military leader who ended Muslim control of the Indian Ocean trade--took Goa, Moluccas, and held much of SE under Portuguese control | 0 | |
| 11855796278 | Astrolabe | An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets | 1 | |
| 11855798771 | 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. | 2 | |
| 11855801222 | Captain James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779). | 3 | |
| 11855801223 | Ceuta | a Muslim city in North Africa Prince Henry conquered in 1415; the Portuguese found exotic stores filled with pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and the spices. In addition, they encountered large supplies of gold, silver, and jewels | 4 | |
| 11855806536 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India/Asia. | 5 | |
| 11855810804 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 6 | |
| 11855813427 | Cross staffs and back staffs | An instrument used at sea for measuring the altitude of celestial bodies | 7 | |
| 11855815765 | East India Company | An English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia. | 8 | |
| 11855820217 | epidemic disease | disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a short time | 9 | |
| 11855823610 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 10 | |
| 11855829871 | Guanahani | local name for the island on which Columbus first landed | 11 | |
| 11855834695 | Jan Pieterszoon Coen | Founded Batavia on Java Island in 1619, which was a strategic site near Sunda Strait that attracted Chinese and Malay vessels; architect of Dutch policy by monopolizing spice trade | 12 | |
| 11855838840 | Java | An object-oriented programming language designed specifically for programs (particularly multimedia) to be used over the Internet. Java allows programmers to create small programs or applications to enhance websites. | 13 | |
| 11855841740 | joint-stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. | 14 | |
| 11855846584 | magnetic compass | Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north | 15 | |
| 11855846585 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. | 16 | |
| 11855854409 | Manila Galleons | Heavily armed, fast ships that brought luxury goods from China to Mexico and carried silver from Mexico to China. | 17 | |
| 11855857138 | Miguel Lopez de Legazpi | The first Spanish governor-general in the Philippines. | 18 | |
| 11855861463 | Prince Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 19 | |
| 11855863902 | Sao Jorge de Mina | Location of fortified Portuguese trading posts in modern Ghana. The Portuguese exchanged horses, leather, textiles, and metal wares for gold & slaves. | 20 | |
| 11855866121 | Seven Years War | (1756-1763 CE) Known also as the 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. | 21 | |
| 11855877402 | Siberia | The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia. | 22 | |
| 11855880311 | Taino | a Native American people of the Caribbean islands - the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas | 23 | |
| 11855880312 | 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. | 24 | |
| 11855886653 | Vitus Bering | Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) | 25 | |
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