Portuguese and Spanish Exploration

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Portuguese explorers aimed to sail around Africa's southern tip to reach...

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Asia/West Indies

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Who reached Asia by sailing around Africa's southern tip?

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Vasco de Gama

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Creator of a school for sailors, shipbuilders, navigators, and scholars.

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese shipbuilding improvements included sealing bottoms with tar and adding sails that were:

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square and triangular

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Spanish explorer credited with circumnavigating the globe.

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Magellan

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Columbus is known for:

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accidentally discovering the Americas

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Explorer who first circumnavigated the globe.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Pedro Cabral's fame?

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Discovering South America and Brazil.

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Territories controlled by other countries, often settled by their people.

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Colonies

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Portugal's race to Asia was won by this sailor at Calicut.

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Vasco de Gama