An imaginary line around the middle of Earth. It is exactly halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the Equator?
A person who travels in search of geographical or scientific information.
What is an explorer?
The system of rules and regulations by which a regions production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (commodities) is managed.
What is an economy?
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country. There were 13 of these in early US history.
What is a colony?
A forcible overthrow of a government in favor of a new system.
What is a revolution?
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and located at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
To travel by water or to sail over, on , or through.
What is navigate?
The act or business of exchanging goods and services by barter, buying or selling for money.
What is trade?
A place where people establish a community. The place has generally been uninhabited.
What is a settlement?
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
What is a constitution?
The ocean between the United States and England.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A course of period of travelling by other than land routes.
What is a voyage?
To trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services.
What is barter?
A form of government with a king, queen, or emperor at the head.
What is a monarchy?
A statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or a document (such as a constitution).
What is an amendment?
The continent where the United States is located.
What is North America?
To go completely around especially by water.
What is circumnavigate?
One of the sea-lanes ordinarily used by merchant ships.
What is a trade route?
People who journey to a place for religious reasons.
What are pilgrims?
The three branches of the US government.
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
The continent where England is located?
What is Europe?
The century when the Age of Exploration began.
What is the 15th century?
A person or company involved in trade, especially in trade with foreign countries.
What is a merchant?
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place or native to an area.
What is indigenous?
A nation’s or state’s supreme power within its borders.
What is sovereignty?