Unit 3 Vocab - Lesson 3.1 and 3.2

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Moluccas

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Islands in eastern Indonesia; center of the spice trade in the 1500s and 1600s.

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Prince Henry

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(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established a navigation school at Sagres and directed voyages that expanded Portugal's colonial empire.

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Cartographer

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A person who makes maps.

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Mombassa

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Seaport of Kenya

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Vasco da Gama: Portuguese explorer who led the first naval expedition from Europe to India (1497-1498), opening a key commercial sea route. Sailed under South Africa.

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Portuguese explorer who opened a key sea route to India.

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Christopher Columbus

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Mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while seeking a faster route to India by sailing West.

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Line of Demarcation

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Line drawn by Alexander VI giving Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Line of Demarcation: boundary from 1493 defining Spanish & Portuguese possessions in the Americas.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. First to circumnavigate the world.

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circumnavigate

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sail around the world