Age of Discovery

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Expedition

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Journey taken by a group of people with a goal

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Navigation

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The act of planning a route or directing a vehicle

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Silk Road

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Ancient networks of roads that carried goods to China, the Roman Empire, and the Western world

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caravel

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a small and fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship from the 15th-17th centuries

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Isthmus

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A strip of land that connects two larger land areas

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John Cabot

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proved the existence of a shorter route across the North Atlantic Ocean

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Ferdinand Magellan

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proved that the globe could be circled by sea and discovered the Strait of Magellan

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Vasco da Gama

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Established a trade route that connected Portugal with the spice market of India

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Christopher Columbus

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Marked the beginning of the exploration and colonization of the Americas

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Why did the Age of Exploration begin?

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Faster trade routes to Asia