| A | B |
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| prince henry the navigator | became the driving force behind portuguese exploration; saw the wealth that was available through trade |
| bartolomeu Dias | a portuguese explorere who sailed around Africa's southern tip which he named Cape of Storms |
| Vasco De Gama | a portuguese explorere who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope |
| Christopher Columbus | born in Genoa, Italy, developed a plan to reach the rich lands of Asia by sailing west...instead of reaching Asia he reached the America's |
| Queen Isabella | Queen of spain, agreed to pay for Christopher Columbus's voyage |
| Amerigo Vespucci | an Italian trader who claimed to take part in four voyages across the Atlantic, he explorred the coast of what is now South America |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | a Spanish explorere who traveled to th eIsthmus of Panama where he organized an expedition to search for gold and a huge ocean |
| Ferdinand Magellan | a portuguese navigator who set out to achieve Columbus's unfulfilled goal of reaching Asia by sailing west, Magellan landed in the Philippines, where he was killled by native people |
| Henry Hudson | an explorer from England who searched for a northwest passage |
| Pedro Alvarez Cabral | a portuguese explorer who set out for India but first landed in southeastern Brazil, he claimed the land for portugal |
| Alfonso de Albuquerque | led a mission to Malacca, located near these islands, which helped establish the portuguese spice trade |
| Sir George MaCartney | sent to China by the British government to ask for greater trading rights |
| Qianlong | Chinese emporer who rejected British requests for greater trading rights |
| King George III | King of England; sent Sir George McCartney to China in search of greater trading rights |
| circumnavigation | going completely around the Earth |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas of land |
| monolopoly | the exclusive control of goods or services in a market |
| colony | a territory ruled over by a distant state |
| missionary | a person who is sent to do religious work in a foreign country |
| persecution | the causing of injury or distress to others because of their religion, race or political beliefs |
