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| 259691669 | 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. (p. 428) | 0 | |
| 259691670 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 1 | |
| 259691671 | Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. (The same year HRE Charles V became empreor.) Magellan was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | 2 | |
| 259691672 | East India Companies | British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions. | 3 | |
| 259691673 | World Economy | Created by Europeans during the late 16th century; based on control of the seas; established an international exchange of foods, diseases, and manufactured products. | 4 | |
| 259691674 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 5 | |
| 259691675 | Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 6 | |
| 259691676 | Core Nations | Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services such as shipping; exported manufactured goods for raw materials. | 7 | |
| 259691677 | Dependent Economic Zones | Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials; dependent on European markets and shipping; tendency to build systems based on forced and cheap labor (ex. Brazil) | 8 | |
| 259691678 | Vasco de Balboa | Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519) | 9 | |
| 259691679 | New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. (p. 489) | 10 | |
| 259691680 | Atlantic Colonies | British colonies in North America along Atlantic coast from New England to Georgia. | 11 | |
| 259691681 | Treaty of Paris | This treaty ended the Seven Years War | 12 | |
| 259691682 | Cape Colony | a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814 | 13 | |
| 259691683 | Boers | Dutch settlers in south Africa | 14 | |
| 259691684 | Calcutta | Headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in Indian subcontinent; located on Ganges; captured in 1756 during early part of Seven Years' War; later became administrative center for all of Bengal. | 15 | |
| 259691685 | Seven Years' War | Known in America as 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. | 16 |
