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| 748024245 | Spirit of Adventure and Curiosity | the Renaissance encouraged this; prompted Europeans to explore the world around them | 0 | |
| 748024246 | Gold, Glory, God | the desire for these three things prompted European exploration | 1 | |
| 748024247 | Muslims and Italians | they controlled trade from East to West | 2 | |
| 748024248 | Caravel | a European vessel that was sturdier than earlier vessels; designed in the 1400s | 3 | |
| 748024249 | Astrolabe | a brass circle with carefully adjusted rings marked off in degrees; used to determine sailors' location at sea | 4 | |
| 748024250 | Compass | Chinese invention that allowed explorers to more accurately track direction | 5 | |
| 748024251 | Prince Henry | son of the king of Portugal; Portugal's most enthusiastic supporter of exploration who helped conquer the Muslim city of Ceuta in North Africa | 6 | |
| 748024252 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese captain who explored the southern coast of Africa | 7 | |
| 748024253 | Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer who started exploring the east African coast and eventually reached Calicut on the southwestern coast of India; gave Portugal a direct sea route to India | 8 | |
| 748024254 | 60 Times | Vasco de Gama's Indian cargo was worth this many times as much as the voyage | 9 | |
| 748024255 | Christopher Columbus | Italian sea captain who convinced Spain to finance a bold plan to find a route to Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean, but instead reached the Americas and opened the way for European colonization | 10 | |
| 748024256 | Papal Line of Demarcation | imaginary dividing line drawn by the Pope through the Atlantic Ocean that gave some land to Spain and some land to Portugal | 11 | |
| 748024257 | Portuguese Merchants | they brought back goods from Asia at 1/5 of what they cost when purchased through the Arabs and Italians | 12 | |
| 748024258 | Ferdinand Magellan | led a Spanish expedition to the Philippines in which Spain claimed the islands | 13 | |
| 748024259 | Netherlands | small country situated along the North Sea in northwestern Europe; that was ruled by Spain until 1581; battled the English for dominance of Portugal | 14 | |
| 748024260 | Dutch East India Company | trading company in the Netherlands; much richer and more powerful than England's company | 15 | |
| 748024261 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese sea captain who made a daring voyage from Spain in 1492; never reached Asia, but stepped onto an island in the Caribbean | 16 | |
| 748024262 | Amerigo Vespucci | an Italian in the service of Portugal who traveled along the eastern coast of South America; discovered the land was not part of Asia, but a "new" world | 17 | |
| 748024263 | Balboa | Spanish explorer who marched through modern-day Panama and became the first European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean | 18 | |
| 748024264 | Magellan | Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Southern end of South America and eventually reached the Philippines, but was killed in a local war there | 19 | |
| 748024265 | Hernando Cortes | Spaniard who landed on the shores of Mexico; marched inland to claim new lands for Spain | 20 | |
| 748024266 | Conquistadors | name for Cortes and the many other Spanish explorers who followed him; carved out colonies in regions that would become Mexico, South America, and the United States | 21 | |
| 748024267 | Mexico | Cortes made it here and learned of the Aztecs; he invaded the Aztec empire and tried to take Aztec gold | 22 | |
| 748024268 | Aztecs | people living in the interior region of Mexico; Cortes conquered them | 23 | |
| 748024269 | Montezuma | Aztec emperor who was convinced that Cortes was a god wearing armor; agreed to give Cortes a share of Aztec gold | 24 | |
| 748024270 | Francisco Pizarro | conquistador who marched a small force into South America; conquered the Incan Empire | 25 | |
| 748024271 | Atahualpa | Incan ruler who met Pizarro and his army of 200 near the city of Cajamarca; captured, held for ransom, and strangled by the Spanish | 26 | |
| 748024272 | Incas | Francisco Pizarro and his army conquered this people in South America | 27 | |
| 748024273 | Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer who landed on the coast of modern-day Florida and claimed it for Spain | 28 |
