Unit 6a Vocab

Front

Maps showing compass directions, highly accurate.

Back

Portolan maps

Front

Portuguese ship, easy to maneuver

Back

caravel

Front

Explorer who "discovered" the Americas in 1492

Back

Christopher Columbus

Front

Items traded between Americas and Europe/Africa

Back

Columbian Exchange

Front

First explorer to circumnavigate the world

Back

Ferdinand Magellan

Front

Self-igniting firearm

Back

wheel-lock

Front

Trade in slaves from Africa to the Americas

Back

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Front

Go around the globe

Back

circumnavigate

Front

French explorer who founded Quebec

Back

Samuel de Champlain

Front

Southern tip of Africa

Back

Cape of Good Hope