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Zheng He
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An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships throught the Indian Ocean , from Southeast Asia to Africa
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Arawak
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Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the the time of Columbus.
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Henry the Navigator
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Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.
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Christopher Columbus
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Genoese mariner who in the service of spain led expeditons across the atlantic reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the old world opening the way to spanish conquest ad colonization.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish exploration on 1519-1522 that was the first to sail arround the world.
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Conquistadors
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Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered mexico, Central America, and Peru.
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Hernan Cortes
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Spanish explorer and wonquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain
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Moctezuma
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Last Axtec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spainsh ecplorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
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Atahualpa
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Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was exucuted by the Spainish.
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Caravel
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A small highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the portuguese and Spanis in the exploration of the Atlanitc.
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Gold Coast
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Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupited by modern Hhana named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470's onward.
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first ecpedition to sail arrond the southern tip of africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
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