Vocabulary
A large naval force consisting of many ships.
What is armada?
Awakening of culture, art, and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300-1600 timeframe.
What is the Renaissance?
The name given to a military fort in Spanish-controlled lands; one still exists in Monterey, California today.
What is a presidio?
Columbus was Italian by birth, but the king and queen of this country finances his voyages.
What is Spain?
Name four oceans.
What is the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian?
This term describes the act of sailing completely around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
An instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north.
What is a compass?
This type of ship helped make long sea voyages possible because it was large and fast.
What is a caravel?
On the return trip of his first voyage, Columbus arrived at this Portuguese city before returning to Spain.
What is Lisbon?
Name seven continents.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, Antarctica?
A house of worship for a follower of the Islamic faith.
What is a mosque?
This is the term given to Spanish explorers in the 1500-1600s.
What is conquistador?
These religious/military expeditions had the unplanned result of creating trade between Europe and Asia.
What were the Crusades?
Of the original three ships Columbus set sail with, this one did not make it back to Europe.
What is the Santa Maria?
This is currently the largest mammal on Earth.
What is a blue whale?
A device used by maritime navigators that used the position of the stars to help plot naval routes.
What is an astrolabe?
A very large farm, mostly in the southeast of what would become the United States.
What is a plantation?
A settler who pays rent or does work in exchange for the use of land to farm.
What is a tenant farmer?
Queen Isabella decided to open the New World to slave trading. True or False?
What is false?
Name seven planets within our solar system (sorry, no Pluto)
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Broad term used to describe Christian faith that began in opposition to the Catholic church. Examples include Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc.
What is Protestantism?
The name given to a town in Spanish-ruled lands.
What is pueblo?
Every year, millions of Muslims make the journey to the holy city of Mecca. This is a good example of a spiritual journey to a religious site known as what?
What is a pilgrimage?
Despite his initial failures, Columbus went on to finally find a maritime route to China. True or false?
What is false?
Without using a calculator, write the value of
111,111,111 to the 2nd power.
What is 12,345,678,987,654,321?