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| Vasco da Gama | Portugese sailor who was the first to sail around Africa and reach India. |
| Qing Dynasty | Also known as the Manchu Dynasty. It was China's last dynasty. |
| Zheng He | Chinese explorer who traveled to Africa |
| Taj Mahal | famous tomb found in India |
| Babur | founder of the Moghul Empire in India |
| Akbar the Great | most famous ruler of the Moghul Empire |
| Safavid Empire | ruled what is today Iran |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portugese sailor who was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope |
| Caravel | ship invented by the Portugese that had more sails and guns |
| Sextant | an instrument that was used to help one locate a ship's position |
| haiku | a form of Japanese poetry |
| Prince Henry | He set up a a school in Portugal to train sailors and navigators |
| cartography | the art of map making |
| Jihad | holy war in the Muslim faith |
| kowtow | Chinese practice of bowing to the emperor |
| Line of Demarcation | the Pope designated this to divide up the New World between the Spanish and the Portugese |
| Ottoman Empire | began in what is now Turkey |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | agreement that moved the Line of Demarcation further west giving Portugal claim to Brazil |
| Suleiman | a famous Ottoman ruler |
| Mughals | Indian name for Mongols |
| Shi'ite Muslims | what the Safavids were |
| isolation | China and Japan chose this to keep out foreigners, but it hurt their technological development |
| Christianity | religion banned in Japan by the shogun |
| Christopher Columbus | He believed he could reach India and Asia by sailing west |
| potato | introduced to Europe as a cheap source of food by the Colombian exchange |
| sugar cane | this crop led to the development of the slave trade |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his expedition was the first to sail around the world |
| capitalism | this encourages people to make money and was an incentive for the Age of Exploration |
