Explorers Vocabulary Iroquois Middle School 2020

Explorers Vocabulary

Conquistador

• A Spanish Explorer/Conqueror

• in the Americas in the 1500s

Multiple Select

Select those items that refer to a Conquistador:

• Spanish explorer

• German explorer

• looking for new land

• 1500's

• 1700's

Columbian Exchange

• exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas

• diseases 

Multiple Select

Select those items that describe the Columbian Exchange:

• exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas

• spread diseases

• isolationism

• no sharing between people

Mercantilism

• the theory that a state’s or nation’s power depended on its wealth

• create colonies for raw materials and markets to sell goods

• (make into products + make $$$$)

Multiple Select

Select all that describe Mercantilism:

• wealth

• raw materials

• markets

• sell goods

• make money

 Northwest Passage

• water route to Asia through North America

• Sought by Europeans

Multiple Select

Select the one correct definition of the Northwest Passage:

• Native Americans wanted this passage

• Wanted by Europeans

• water route to North America through Asia

• water route to Asia through North America

• Would shorten the route for sailors to get from Eastern NA to the Western side of NA

Exploration

• the act of sailing to explore other lands for:

  
  

• possible colonization

• raw materials

• new routes

Multiple Select

Why did Explorers want to find and claim new land?

(select all that apply)

• colonization

• raw materials

• new routes

• wealth and power

Orient

• the countries of Asia

• especially eastern Asia

Multiple Select

The Orient are countries from:

• Europe

• South America

• Asia

• North America

 Cultural Diffusion

• the spread of one's cultural practices, beliefs, and/or items

• like food, music, or tools

Multiple Select

The spread of one's cultural practices, beliefs, and/or items is known as:

• Cultural Sharing

• Cultural Spread

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Indifference

Isolationism

• remaining apart from the affairs or

  interests of other groups

  
  

• especially the political affairs of

  other countries

  
  

Multiple Select

Which items are related to Isolationism?

• taking an active role in the politics of another country

• keeping out of other countries' political affairs

• involved in everyone's business

• keeping to oneself and minding your own business

Economics

• the production, consumption, and transfer    

  of wealth

  
  

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Multiple Select

Economics is the the production, consumption, and transfer

of wealth

• True

• False

Technology

• machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge

Multiple Select

Machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge is known as :

• science and knowledge

• inventions and patents

• technology

• business and machines

Colonization

• the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin  

  
  

Multiple Select

Colonization is which of the following?

• settling a colony near your home country

• settling a colony far from your home country

Printing Press

• Johannes Gutenberg (1450) allowed people to become educated and learn about the world

• Marco Polo wrote a book that was published about the Orient (Asia)

• Columbus wanted to explore Orient after reading Polo’s book      

  
  

Multiple Select

Which are true about the printing press?

• Marco Polo used it to write about Asia

• Gutenberg invented it

• Columbus wrote a book about Asia

• it allowed others to learn and education themselves about the world.

• Columbus read about Asia and wanted to visit

Circumnavigate

• sail around the world

  
  

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What does circumnavigate mean?

• travel

• sail

• sail around the world

• travel from far and wide by land

Triangular Trade

• the trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas

• slave trade from Africa a major part of this trade

  
  

Multiple Select

What was the result of the Triangular Trade in North America ? (Select all that apply)

• war

• slaves

• wealth

• trade

Astrolabe

• explorer instrument that measured how far North or South of the equator a ship was

• used sun and stars

Multiple Select

An Astrolabe helped travelers :

• travel the world by ship

• know distance from the equator

• know distance from homeland

• see the stars

Compass

• allowed sailors to detect north

• this helped them sail on the seas 

  
  

Multiple Select

Select all that are true about a compass:

• points South

• points North

• helps sailors navigate around the word

• revealed where natural resources were located