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100
"the Navigator," set up navigation schools
Who is Prince Henry?
100
conquered the Incas
Who is Pizarro?
100
Spanish soldier, explorer who took part in conquest of the Americas
What is a conquistador?
100
Led voyages of exploration
Who is ZhengHe?
100
this had created a spirit of curiosity and individual achievement in explorers who undertook voyages of exploration
What is the Renaissance?
200
lands in this direction of the Line of Demarcation belonged to them
What is east?
200
he led a rebellion against the Spanish that pushed the Spanish back into New Spain
Who is Pope?
200
in Spanish colonial society in America, this class represented a mixture of European and Native American blood
What is a mestizo?
200
Italian Jesuit who gained favor at the Ming Court
Who is Matteo Ricci?
200
a new sturdier vessel for long-distance sailing
What is the caravel?
300
in 1488, he sailed around the Cape of Good Hope for Portugal
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
300
He was Portuguese but convinced king of Spain to finance his trip around the southern tip of South America into the Pacific
Who was Magellan?
300
system of forced labor
What is the encomienda?
300
ritual suicide under Japan's code of conduct during feudalism
What is seppuku?
300
Dutch farmers in South Africa
Who were the Boers?
400
He claimed Brazil for Portugal
Who is Pedro Alvares Cabral?
400
Spain's rivalry with Portugal precipitated the need for this treaty signed in 1494
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
name given to peoples that Columbus met in what he thought was the East Indies
What is Taino?
400
In Japan, this title represented the supreme military commander
What is shogun?
400
this powerful and rich empire in India was the center of the valuable spice trade
What is the Mughal Empire?
500
this Portuguese seaman and explorer burned coastal towns and crushed Arab fleets off the coast of India
Who is Afonso de Albuquerque?
500
Place where Magellan lost his life
What is the Philippines?
500
first Spanish explorer to lay eyes on the Pacific by way of Panama
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
delivered letter asking for better trade agreement on behalf of King George III
Who is Lord George Macartney?
500
Incan king who was captured for ransom and eventually killed by the Spanish under Pizarro
Who is Atahualpa?