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| an instrument developed by the ancient greeks and perfected by the Arabs to determine the lattitude at sea |
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| developed by Protuguese, combined the square sails of European ships with the Arab lateen, triangular sail, adopted the sternpost rudder and numerous masts of Chinese ships, new rigging made it easier to sail across, more weaponry |
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| Porugues leader who seized Ceuta on the North African Coast |
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| rounded the southern tip of Africa tha became known a the Cape of Godd hope bec it opened the way for a sea route to Asia |
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| led 4 ships around the cape of good hope and eventually reached Calicut, spice port of India many sailors died but highly profitable for survivors |
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| a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C |
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| reach the Indiea by sailing west across the Atlantic, but instead discovered North and South America, however he never learned this |
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| divided the land Columbus discoverd half to Spain and half to Portugal for trading and exploration rights |
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| mapmaker who named America |
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| hacked a passage to America through the tropical forests of Panama |
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| charted a passage known as the Strait of Magellan and his ships emerged from this lashing into the Balboa Sea which he renamed the Pacific (peaceful) Ocean, first to circumnavigate the globe |
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| more northernly route to America, never found |
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| inheritance through the mother |
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| king of Pagan, credited with bringing Budhism to his people |
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| king of Khmer Empire, built great temple complex at Angkor Wat |
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| under his command, portiguese burst into the Indian Ocean and seized the isalnd of Goa off the Indian coast making it their major military and commercial base, wanted to end muslim power and captured many more cities |
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| distant areas under their control |
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| an agent of the British East India Company who used an army of British troops and sepoys to drive the French from their trading posts, later company became real ruler of Bengal and was able to use it great wealth to spread influence into other parts of India |
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| brilliant Jesuit priest learned to speak Chineseand adopted Chines dress, wasn't successful in spreading religious beliefs but chinese wanted to learn arts and sciences of renaissance europe |
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| Qing ruler who extended Chinese power into central Asia and promoted Chinese culture |
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| Qing ruler who expanded China's border to rule the largest are in the nation's history |
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| arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mision, brought samples of British-made goods to show the Chinese the advantages of trading with westerners, chines misunderstood all of Macartney's actions so missionwas unsuccessful and British couldn't trade with chinese |
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| Spanish Jesuit priest, and Japanese missionary |
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| what Korea was known as since when european sailors were shipwrecked on Korea they were imprisoned or killed |
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