A Changing World
The state of being set apart or cut off.
Isolation
Studied
Analyzed
A global trade of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases that occurred during the 1500s and 1600s.
Columbian Exchange
Spanish explorer in the Americas during the 1500s.
Conquistador
A fort.
Presido
A series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of christian holy sites in the Middle East from the 1000s C.E. to the 1200s C.E..
The Crusades
A point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula.
Cape
An economic theory that a nation's power depends on its ability to increase wealth by accumulating precious metals.
Merchantillism
He conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519.
Hernán Cortés
A cure.
Remedy
A device that is used to find direction by means of a needle that always point north.
Magnetic compass
To travel completely around something
Circumnavigate
A fleet of warships.
Armada
England sent this Italian explorer to look for a northern sea route to Asia in 1497.
John Cabot
Resistance of an organism to infection or disease.
Immunity
A reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s.
Renaissance
A small fast Portuguese ship used during that age of exploration and usually having three sails..
Caravel
A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country.
Colony
He was an Italian explorer, navigator, and cartographer from Florence whose voyages to the western hemisphere convinced European geographers that the newly discovered lands were a separate "New World," rather than the eastern coast of Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
A religious movement in the 1500s that rejected or changed some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and established the Protestant Church.
Reformation
Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
Classical
An instrument that uses positions of the stars to plan a course.
Astrolabe
A much sought sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, located along the noth coast of North America.
Northwest Passage
He made the first Spanish landing on North American mainland in 1513.
Juan Ponce de Leon
The mythical lands of gold that the Spanish of the 16th century believed existed somewhere in the southwest of North America.
The Seven Cities of Cibola