Vocabulary
Technology
Places
Exploration
Colonization
100
to explore unknown regions of the world
What is global exploration?
100
The compass helped Europeans with direction at sea. The magnetized needle points___________.
What is north?
100
The continent that explored during the 1400-1500
What is Europe?
100
This term means circling the globe
What is circumnavigate?
100
This type of colony had cash crops and slaves
What is plantation?
200
Spanish conquerors
What is conquistadors?
200
A ship built in the late 1400s by Portuguese. It could sail close to shore and was lightweight.
What is caravel?
200
Items Europeans wanted from the Indies
What are tea, spices, and silk?
200
The voyage of Magellan was the first to __________.
What is circumnavigate the globe?
200
This type of colony sent people over to live in the new territory
What is settler?
300
A group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government
What is empire?
300
Allowed the explorers to use the poition of the sun and stars to determine latitude
What is astrolabe?
300
The first European country to globally explore
What is Portugal?
300
Reason the Europeans began exploring an all water route to Asia
What is the Silk Road was being taxed by the Ottoman Empire?
300
The largest trading post empire was built by ________ in North America.
What is France?
400
one product grown to make a profit, usually on a plantation
What is cash crop?
400
News of gunpowder traveled from China by the _______Road.
What is Silk?
400
Australia and the surrounding islands
What is Oceania?
400
What happened to the population on the Native Americans once the Europeans arrived?
What is decrease?
500
The distance in degrees north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
500
This technology allowed the Europeans to conquer the Native Americans
What is gunpowder?
500
Oceania, North and South America, Africa, and Asia
What is places explored by Europeans?
500
Obstacles the hindered exploration (3)
What is poor maps, wind and currents, lack of knowledge, distance, lack of technology?
500
Three reasons that the Europeans wanted to establish colonies
What is spread of religion, power, land and resources?
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