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| Bartolomeu Dias | an early Portuguese explorer. |
| Prince Henry | The nations most enthusiastic supporter of exploration and the son of Portugal's king. |
| Vasco Da Gama | Portuguese Expolore who began exploring the East African Coast. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |
| Dutch East India Company | A company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to esatblish and direct trade throughout Asia. |
| Ming Dynasty | A Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644. |
| Hongwu | A Peasant's son, who cammanded the rebel army that drove the Mongols out of China in 1368. |
| Yonglo | The son of Hongwu |
| Zheng He | A Chinese Muslim admiral who led seven voyages of trading to 16 countries to show Chinese superiority |
| Manchus | The people of Manchuria who in 1644 invaded china and caused the Ming dynasty to collaspse. |
| Qing Dynasty | China's last dynasty, which ruled from 1644 to 1912. |
| Kangxi | Became emperor in 1661 and ruled for some 60 years. |
| Daimyo | A JAPanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai. |
| Oda Nobunaga | Defeated his rivals and seized the imperial capital Kyoto in 1568. |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | Nobunaga's best general who continued his fallen leader's mission. |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | A dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867. |
| Haiku | A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. |
