Vocabulary
The act of traveling in search of new lands, ideas, or things.
What is exploration?
This instrument uses a magnetic pointer to show north.
What is a compass?
This explorer sailed for Spain and landed in the Caribbean islands.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This historical exchange transferred crops, animals, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s voyage.
What is Spain?
This was the dangerous forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
This scientific instrument measured the angle of the stars or sun to help sailors find location.
What is an astrolabe?
This explorer’s crew first circumnavigated Earth.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Silk Road connected the Far East with these two regions.
What are the Middle East and Europe?
John Cabot helped establish claims in North America for this country.
What is England (Britain)?
This term means native to the land.
What is indigenous?
This invention used mirrors to measure the angle of the sun or stars to determine latitude.
What are octants?
This Spanish conquistador helped bring down the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The Triangle Trade involved these three continents.
What are Europe, Africa, and North/South America?
Sir Walter Raleigh established this failed colony.
What is Roanoke?
This was a territory controlled by a stronger country for the benefit of the homeland.
What is a colony?
This small, fast ship could maneuver winds and sail close to shore.
What is a caravel?
This explorer searched for gold through the Southwest United States and Great Plains.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
One major goal of exploration was finding faster _____________ .
What are trade routes?
Henry Hudson searched for this while exploring North America.
What is a waterway to Asia (Northwest Passage)?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is Triangle Trade?
This invention provided protection for sailors by powering cannons and guns.
What is gunpowder?
This explorer entered what is now New York Harbor and explored the Atlantic coast of North America.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
This all-water Arctic route connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Name three leading European nations during the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain, Portugal, France, England, or the Netherlands?