World History

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  1. 2. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
  2. 4. discovered the Hawaiian Islands
  3. 5. egment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
  4. 8. a member of the Quechuan peoples of Peru maintaining an empire until the Spanish conquest
  5. 10. the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope
  6. 15. the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slave
  7. 16. member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century
  8. 18. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
  9. 20. commanded the largest and most advanced fleet the world had ever seen
  10. 22. an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
  11. 23. western hemisphere, especially the Americas, after the European “age of discovery” beginning in the early 16th century.
  12. 24. Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven
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  1. 1. explorer for Portugal, and later Spain, who discovered the Strait of Magellan while leading the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the globe. He died en route and Juan Sebastián del Cano completed it
  2. 3. developed the science of astronomy, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic writing.
  3. 6. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries
  4. 7. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  5. 9. Known as the “Father of New France
  6. 11. tip of Africa.
  7. 12. ¨Mother culture¨ of meso America known for giant head statues
  8. 13. helped capture the North African city of Ceuta, sponsored voyages of exploration with the aim of building colonies in the North Atlantic and West Africa
  9. 14. sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
  10. 17. invented by the Aztec civilization. Sometimes referred to as "floating gardens¨
  11. 19. Known for discovering America but actually landed in Cuba
  12. 21. on past events in Africa, Asia, and Europe