| A | B |
|---|
| astrolabe | It determined latitude when at sea. |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa to India |
| monsoons | natural occurrence regularly delayed trade ships in Southeast Asian ports |
| Dutch | Portuguese lost control of trade in the Indian Ocean to the |
| Bartholomeu Dias | first European explorer to find his way around the southern tip of Africa |
| Aztec ruler | Montezuma II |
| John Cabot | Italian-born navigator who explored Newfoundland. |
| enslaved Africans | Cargo on the middle leg of the triangular trade |
| peninsulares | top of the social structure in the Spanish colonies |
| Canada | territory France was forced to give up to Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 |
