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| 288188399 | glyphs | A symbolic picture-especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone. | 0 | |
| 288188403 | Ayllu | In Incan society, a small community or clan whose members worked together for the common good. | 1 | |
| 288188404 | Mita | In the Inca empire, the requirement that all able-bodies subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. | 2 | |
| 288188407 | Treaty of Tordesillas | A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | 3 | |
| 288188408 | Hongwu | First emperor of the Ming Dynasty, born a peasant, drove Mongols out of China | 4 | |
| 288188409 | Yonglo | The son of Hongwu and moved the Ming capital to Beijing. He built the imperial city, which became the Forbidden City. He was also a patron for oversea voyages and exploration. | 5 | |
| 288188410 | Colonies | Lands controlled by a distinct nation | 6 | |
| 288188417 | Columbian Exchange | The global transfer of foods, plants, animals, and diseases during the colonization of the Americas | 7 | |
| 288188419 | Joint-Stock company | A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits. | 8 | |
| 288188420 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. | 9 | |
| 396039674 | Sahara | the world's largest desert in northern Africa. was an extensive trade route for many great empires | 10 | |
| 396039675 | matrilineal | passing things down from mother to daughter or woman to woman | 11 | |
| 396039676 | patrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father | 12 | |
| 396039677 | 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. | 13 | |
| 396039678 | Vasco de Gama | A Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 14 | |
| 396841701 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 15 | |
| 396841702 | Maya city | features grand temples, palaces, and elaborate stone carvings dedicated to the gods and important leaders. There is also a ball court that features the game, "pelota" | 16 | |
| 396841703 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. (pp. 355, 422) | 17 | |
| 396841704 | Prince Henry | Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration | 18 | |
| 396841705 | Reasons for European Exploration | desire for wealth, to spread Christianity, desire for land, new sailing technology | 19 | |
| 396841706 | Reasons for African slavery | immune to European diseases,experience with farming, cheap labor,nowhere to escape | 20 |
