Identify and Define
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Henry the Navigator | The prince of Portugal that embodied the crusading drive and the new spirit of exploration.
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| Vasco da Gama | Led four ships around the Cape of Good Hope.
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| Christopher Columbus | An Italian navigator from the port of Genoa who wanted to reach the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic.
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| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | A Spanish adventurer who hacked a path through Panama.
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| Ferdinand Magellan | A minor Portuguese noble trying to find a path from South America to the Pacific.
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| Cartographer | Map-maker
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| Astrolabe | Instrument developed to determine sailors' altitude at sea.
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| Caravel | Combined square sails with triangular sails.
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| Scurvy | A disease caused by a lack of vitamin C in their diets during months at sea.
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| Circumnavigate | Sail around.
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| Pagan | arose in the fertile rice-growing Irrawaddy Valley.
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| Anawrata | King that made Pagan a major Buddhist center.
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| Khmer | Adapted Indian writing, mathematics, architecture, and art.
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| Suryavarman II | A King who built the great temple complex at Angkor Wat.
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| Trung sisters | Two noble sister that led an uprising that briefly drove the Chinese occupiers from the land.
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| Matrilineal | Inheritance through the mother.
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| Stupa | Dome-shaped shrines
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| Padi | Fields
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| Afonso de Albuquerque | A commander that burned coastal towns and crushed Arab fleets at sea.
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| Robert Clive | An agent of the British East India Company.
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| Outpost | Distant areas under their control
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| Sepoy | Indian troops
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| Matteo Ricci | A Jesuit priest that made a positive impression on Ming China.
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| Manchus | Invaders from the north that pushed through the Great Wall.
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| Kangxi | A ruler that was an able administer and military leader.
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| Qianlong | Kangxi's grandson which had an equally successful reign.
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| Hermit Kingdom | What Korea was called because they imprisoned shipwrecked European sailors.
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| Francis Xavier | A Spanish priest who found a Japanese curious and eagar to learn about Christianity.
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