Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Big Ideas
Explorers
Miscellaneous
100
A community ruled by another country
What is a colony
100
The name of Spanish explorers that came to the New World in the 1500s
What is a conquistador
100
To study the past, an archeologist specializes in studying these items.
What are artifacts?
100
Why explorers planted flags.
What is to claim land for their country?
100
The route that explorers hoped to find to lead them form North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
A route across the northern part of North America.
What is the Northwest Passage
200
A sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another
What is contagious disease?
200
Sailors use astrolabes to tell something.
What is latitude?
200
Gold was important to explorers.
What is how wealth was measured by Europeans?
200
The rulers of Spain wanted a shorter trade route to the East Indies.
What is to get more silk and spices?
300
Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia
What is the East Indies?
300
A scientist who studies artifacts
What is an archeologist?
300
The Age of Exploration started with a search for new trade routes to this place.
What is Asia?
300
Spreading the Christian beliefs.
What is the religious goal that inspired many European explorers?
300
The explorer who explored the southwest region of the United States.
Who is Francisco de Coronado?
400
A person who travels in search of new geographical information.
What is an explorer?
400
The name given to this place when the Europeans discovered America.
What is the New World?
400
A compass works using the Earth's...
What is magnetic field?
400
Hernan Cortez fought against these native Americans.
Who were the Aztecs?
400
The river explored by La Salle.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
A type of plant, like tobacco, that could be sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
500
An early scientific tool used to observe the position of sun and stars.
What is an astrolabe?
500
An explorer could find the other cardinal directions if he knew this.
What is the direction of north.
500
The legendary place that Juan Ponce De Leon was looking for.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! The first permanent European settlement in North America.
What is St. Augustine?
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