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- 5. Canadian term for individuals of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry
- 7. British joint-stock company within a state in India
- 8. Kingdom in West Africa during the fifth through the thirteenth century, its power and wealth were based on dominating trans-Saharan trade
- 10. Commander of the Portuguese forces in the Indian Ocean in the early sixteenth century
- 12. Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal
- 15. Seventeenth-century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms
- 16. Navigational instrument for determining latitude
- 19. City in the Mali Empire known for its large population, wealth, and places of learning
- 20. Aztec emperor at the time of Hernan Cortes’ invasion
- 21. East African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa
- 22. Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500
- 23. West African kingdom ruled by Mansa Musa
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- 1. invented by the Chinese and used for navigation
- 2. Portuguese explorer famous for organizing the first circumnavigation of the globe, by ship
- 3. Italian explorer and navigator who made four transatlantic voyages to the islands off North America
- 4. Means “Return through the sea”
- 6. Latin American term for individuals born of Indigenous and African parents
- 8. Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the fifteenth century
- 9. Kongo prophet and religious leader who founded her own Christian movement
- 11. Spanish courts in Latin America
- 13. Latin American term for children of Spanish and native parentage
- 14. Pizarro: Spanish conquistador whose military expeditions led to the fall of the Inca Empire
- 17. A system that gave the Spanish settlers the right to compel the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines or fields
- 18. Tribe from the Caribbean who were the first Indigenous people from the Americas to come into contact with Christopher Columbus