| A | B |
|---|
| astrolabe | helped sailors determine their latitude |
| caravel | made it easier to sail into the wind |
| cartographer | a person who makes maps |
| circumnavigate | to sail around |
| Trung sisters | led an uprising against the Chinese |
| outposts | term used for distant areas under foreign control |
| sepoy | Indian troops controlled by the French and British |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who embodied the new spirit of exploration |
| Ferdinand Magellan | credited as the first person to circumnavigate the globe |
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for Spain in 1492 |
| monsoon | seasonal wind |
| Anawrata | King of Burma (modern Myanmar) |
| Henry Hudson | sailed for the Dutch and explored the Hudson River |
| Pagan | kingdom in the Irrawaddy Valley (present day Myanmar) and was a major Buddhist center. |
| Khmer | kingdom which reached its peak between 800-1350. (most of Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia) |
| Suryavarman II | king of Khmer who built the great temple, Angkor Wat |
