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21 Cards in this Set
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Affonso I |
ruler of kongo who tried to halt the slave trade in his lands. |
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Qing |
maintained Ming policy of restricting trade with Europeans in the new dynasty that ruled in china |
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Galileo Galilei |
assembled an astronomical telescope, was from Italy, believed in the heliocentric theory |
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Osei TuTu |
leader of the Asante kingdom, won control of trade in Kamas, claimed divine right to rule united people by claiming that they shared spiritual bonds. |
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Nicolas Copernicus |
proposed the heliocentric theory in a book he wrote called the revolutions of the heavenly spheres |
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Moluccas |
chief source of spices, an island chain off the coast of Indonesia, also known as the "spice islands" |
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Goa |
island seized y the Portuguese off the coast of India,made a military base |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
reached America,named the pacific, killed in the Philippines, crew went on to circumnavigate the globe. |
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Scientific Method |
step by step process of discovering new sciences |
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Heliocentric |
sun-centered model of the universe |
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Outpost |
a distant area under a country's control |
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Dutch East India Company |
formed by wealthy dutch merchants, had full sovereign power |
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Prince Henry |
sponsored exploration for Portugal, "Henry the Navigator" |
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Carrtographer |
mapmaker |
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Cape Of Good Hope |
port established that opened a sea route to Asia |
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Line of Demecreation |
line that divided the non-European world in two zones |
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Boers |
dutch farmers that settled around Cape Town |
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Vasco Da Gama |
Portuguese navigator that seized port Calicut, went to India. |
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Bartholomeu Dias |
founded Cape of Good Hope |
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Cape Town |
first permanent European settlement to supply ships to or from East Indies. |
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Sepoys |
Indian troops |
