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Social Studies
Social Studies 1
Question | Answer |
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Cargo | The freight or items carried on a ship. |
Cape of Good Hope | The southern tip of Africa and the Portuguese wealth of spice trade. |
Conquistadors | A 16th century Spanish soldier who conquered civilizations of Mexico or Central America. |
Global Age | A period in the 1400s when, for the first time, Europeans had directed contact with Africans, Asians, and by Americans. |
Line of Demarcation | A line at 38 degrees wet longitude that separated the Spanish lands from the Portuguese lands. |
Overseas Empires | A place beyond or across an ocean. |
Compass | A device used to determine geographic location that consists of a magnetic needle that picots until it aligned with the Earth's magnetic field, |
Lateen Sails | Triangular sail. |
Astrolabe | A navigational device that uses the stars (and sun). |
Spice Islands | An island where many spices cam from the Melaka Islands to the East Indies. |
Circumnavigate | To sail or travel the whole world. |