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3 Rounded the southern tip of Africa and opened the eastern African shores to Portuguese traders in 1488
5 Financed numerous expeditions along the West African coastline in the hope of finding gold
7 Pointed to the magnetic north, making it easier to determine direction
8 Continued Magellan's journey; returned to Spain three years later with a single ship and 18 survivors
9 Confirmed Portugal's right to the eastern route to the Indies as well as to any undiscovered lands in the east; entitled Portugal to Brazil granted rights to African slave trade
10 Set said in pursuit of Columbus' goal of reaching the Spice Islands; his ship was the first to circumnavigate the globe
11 Discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Panama
13 Believed a western track would be shorter than paths the Portuguese were taking; reached the Bahamas, believing he had reached the Indies somewhere west of Indea
15 Conquered the Aztecs in Mesoamerica
18 Explored Brazil; 1st European to realize he had discovered a new continent in the New World; America named after him
19 Spanish adventurers who led conquests in the Americas
1 Used to determine latitude by measuring altitude of celestial bodies
2 Used to determine latitude by measuring altitude of celestial bodies
3 Priest who publicly (at court) criticized the ruthlessness with which Columbus and his successors treated the Amerindians
4 Improved navigation; mapping
6 Small, Lighter, and faster ships ideal for ocean travel
12 Built on Dias' route, completed an all water expedition to India in 1498
14 Spain was accused of using Christianity as a smokescreen or killing countless natives
16 Aztec emperor
17 New World in Latin
 
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