Vocabulary 1
A word used to describe the money within a society- How people make, sell, and buy things
What is Economy?
This fabric was a very popular trade item from Asia.
This magnetic navigation device helped find direction by always pointing north.
What is the Compass?
This country would control the east coast of North America, and its language is still spoken today.
What is England?
The ability to resist a disease.
What is immunity?
This 2 word term is used to describe the Americas, comparing it to the "Older" Europe.
What is "New World"?
The Astrolabe could be used to find these invisible horizontal lines, which Mr. Carney always mentions with a rhyming word.
What is latitude?
This type of document was made by a witness to an event, like a photograph, an interview, or a diary.
What is a primary source?
A fast, light ship used by the Portuguese for exploration.
What is the caravel?
This mythical waterway was a large motivation for France to travel to the Americas, believing it could cross through the continent into Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This term describes the movement of European goods to America and American goods to Europe, but don't forget the diseases!
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The word used to describe the royal leader of a country, such as a king or queen.
What is a monarch?
This religion was the law before the Protestant Reformation, and France came to convert the Native Americans to it.
What is Catholicism?
Although many would argue Enrique of Malacca may have circumnavigated the world first, this Spanish explorer is given the credit by the book and history.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The language spoken in most of Central America and South America, excluding Brazil.
What is Spanish?
This word means a single god in a religion.
What is monotheistic?
This economic system was practiced by the British, and it is where a mother country makes money by limiting trade to colonies, and exports more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
This French explorer found the St. Lawrence River and St. Lawrence in an effort to find gold and the Northwest Passage, but left with scurvy and a luxury watch named after him.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Spain famously built these in Mexico and other colonies to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What are missions?