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Chief source of spices an island chain in present day Indonesia which Europeans then called the spice islands

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Moluccas

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Led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal

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Prince Henry

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3
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Map makers

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Cartographer

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Portuguese navigator who lead four ships around the cape of good hope

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Vasco de gama

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Italian navigator from genoa wanted to reach the East Indies by sailing west across the indies

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Christopher Colombus

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Dividing the non European world into two zones, Spain had trading and exploration rights in any lands west of the line. Portugal had the same rigjts east of the line

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Line of demarcation

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Specific terms of the line of demarcation were agreed to and signed by the two counties in 1494

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Treaty of tordesillas

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Set out from Spain with 5 ships to find a way to reach the pacfic ocean on September 20, 1519. Portuguese man

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Ferdinand Magellan

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9
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Sail around the world

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Circumnavigate

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10
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East African coastal city

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Mombasa

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11
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East African coastal city

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Malindi

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12
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Large estates run by an owner or an owners overseerer

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Plantation

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Ruler of Congo in west Centeal Africa

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Affonso

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Hoped to convert Africans to Christianity

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Missionary

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15
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emerged in the area occupied by present day Ghana

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Asante kingdom

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Military leader won control of the trading city of Kumasi

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Osci tutu

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The exclusive control of a business or industry

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Monopoly

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Arose from successive waves of settlement by the yoruba people of present day Nigeria

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Oyo empire

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The first permanent European settlement. To supply ships sailing to or from the East Indies

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Cape Town

20
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Dutch Farmers settled around Cape Town

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Boers

21
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What factors encouraged European exploration

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Reanasacne curiosity
Spices
Motivation to spread Christianity
Desire to gain glory

22
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What did Portuguese footholds do

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Built small forts to collect food and water and to repair their ships

established trading sites to trade tools such as muskets

Attached milindi and mombasa

Africans resisted exploration

23
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What did Slave trade do

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Bought salves to perform labor on their plantations

Captives were exchanged for guns and gunpowder and tobacco and metal work

Traders shipped thousands of captives across the Atlantic

Slavs were considered property

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What did new African states do

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Loss of many people resulting in small states disappearing

Arose new states which depended on slave trade

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