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The first person to sail around the southern tip of Africa

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Bartolomeu Dias

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First explorer to sail around the tip of Africa and reach India

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Vasco da Gama

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Why did European nations want to trade with Asian Nations?

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the value of new markets and goods

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A tool that measured the height of the sun or a star above the horizon, helping sailors to know how far north or south of the equator they had sailed.

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astrolabe

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without errors or mistakes

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accurately

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a person who buys and sells goods for profit

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merchant

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getting, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves

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slave trade

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the process of planning a route and finding one's location

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navigation

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The Chinese invented this which sailors used to know what direction they were traveling.

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magnetic compass

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an instrument used in navigation that measure the sun and stars

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astrolabe