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- 2. Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
- 4. Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route
- 7. a pattern of colonial commerce connecting three regions and crossing the Atlantic Ocean
- 9. The action or practice of buying and selling people as slaves; an instance of this; spec. the procurement (by capture or purchase) and transportation
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- 1. Portuguese navigator who was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope. Because of storms he did not actually sight it until the return leg of his voyage
- 3. Italian navigator in Spanish service: traditionally considered the discoverer of America 1492.
- 5. Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the king of Castile in the early 16th century
- 6. last Incan king of Peru
- 8. a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed Indigenous and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed Indigenous and foreign descent.