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| 306360114 | Vasco Da Gama | Portuguese mariner; first European to reach India by sea in 1498 | 0 | |
| 306360115 | Columbus | Italian navigator in the service of Aragon and Castile; sailed west to find a route to India and instead discovered the Americas in 1492 | 1 | |
| 306360116 | East India Companies | British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions | 2 | |
| 306360117 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese captain in Spanish service; began the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519; died during voyage; allowed Spain to claim possession of the Philippines | 3 | |
| 306360118 | World economy | Created by Europeans during the late sixteenth century; based on c0ntrol of the seas; established an international exchange of foods, diseases and manufactured products | 4 | |
| 306360119 | Culumbian Exchange | Interaction between Europe and the Americas; millions of Native Americans died of new diseases; new world crops spread to other world regions; European and Asian animals came to the Americas. | 5 | |
| 306360120 | Lepanto | Naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman Empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571; demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims | 6 | |
| 306360121 | Core nations | Nations, usually European, that profited from the world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services; exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials | 7 | |
| 306360122 | Dependent economic zones | Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials' dependent on European markets and shipping; tendency to buid systems based on forced and cheap labor | 8 | |
| 306360123 | Vasco de Balboa | Began first Spanish settlement on Mesoamerican mainland in 1590 | 9 | |
| 306360124 | New France | French colonies in Canada and elsewhere; extended along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down into the Mississippi River valley system | 10 | |
| 306360125 | Atlantic colonies | British colonies in North America along Atlantic coast from New England to Georgia | 11 | |
| 306360126 | Treaty of Paris | concluded in 1763 after the Seven Years War; Britain gained New France and ended France's importance in India | 12 | |
| 306360127 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to provide a coastal station for Dutch ships traveling to and from the East Indies; settlers expanded and fought with Bantu and other Africans | 13 | |
| 306360128 | Boers | Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony before nineteenth century British occupation; later called Afrikaners | 14 | |
| 306360129 | Calcutta | British East India Company headquarter in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal | 15 | |
| 306360130 | Seven Years' War | Fought in Europe, Africa, and Asiabetween 1756 and 1763; the first worldwide war | 16 |
