Jeopardy 20 (first 2 sections)
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- (magnetic) compass
- Navigation instrument with a magnetized needle
- scurvy
- Disease caused by lack of vitamin C, common among early European sailors
- cannons
- Feature of European ships that allowed them to capture coastal trading posts
- astrolabe
- Navigation instrument, perfected by the Arabs, used to measure the angle of stars and planets
- Java
- Far Eastern island that was the trading headquarters of the Dutch
- Macao
- Portuguese trading post in China, near Canton
- the Cape of Good Hope (or Cape of Storms)
- Portuguese name for the southern tip of Africa
- Muslim traders
- Merchants who brought Asian goods to Mediterranean ports
- Middle Passage
- Term for the voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas
- spread Christianity
- Religious reason for European exploration
- Goa
- Island off the coast of India that was the base of Portuguese trade
- East Africa
- The Portuguese expelled Arab traders from this section of the African coast.
- Japan
- Far Eastern nation where the Dutch were allowed to trade once or twice a year
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Portuguese explorer who first sailed around Africa's southern tip
- Vasco da Gama
- Explorer who opened India to Portuguese trade
- triangular sails
- Feature of the caravel that made it sail more effectively
- Netherlands
- Country that established trading forts along the west coast of Africa in the 1400s
- Portuguese
- First Europeans to trade with Japan
- Lisbon
- Port from which many Portuguese explorers sailed
- spices
- Exotic foodstuffs that inspired European voyages to the East
- sextant
- Navigational tool used to determine latitude; it replaced the astrolabe
- Malacca
- Port town that the Portuguese seized, giving them control of the strait with the same name
- Dutch
- Europeans who established a colony at Cape Town on Africa's southern tip
- English (East India Company)
- Commercial group that set up trading posts in India
- Italy
- Western country that controlled Europe's trade with the Far East
- Spice Islands
- Europeans' name for the Moluccas, islands rich in cloves and nutmeg
- cartographer
- Term for mapmakers
- Henry the Navigator
- Brother of the king of Portugal who promoted exploration
- Philippines
- Asian island group claimed by Spain and named for the Spanish king
- Spain and Portugal
- Countries that divided all the new Atlantic lands between themselves
- navigation school
- Type of school started by Prince Henry
- slaves
- Principal export from Africa via European traders
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Portuguese navigator who led a fleet on an around-the-world voyage for Spain
- East Indies
- Early European traders' term for the islands of present-day Indonesia
- Pedro Alvares Cabral
- Portuguese explorer who accidentally landed in Brazil
- papal line of demarcation
- Imaginary line drawn by the pope that divided the new Atlantic lands
- Calicut
- Great spice port of India where da Gama landed and traded
- Africa
- Continent whose west coast the Portuguese explored in the 1400s
- Dutch (East India Company)
- Company that controlled Dutch trade in the Far East