Explorers

A person who brought spices from the Far East to Europe to trade for a profit

• merchant

• missionary

• caravel

• monarch

The science of determining a ship’s location and direction of travel

• navigation
• cartography
• astrolabe
• compass

Movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere following the voyages of Columbus

• Columbian Exchange
• merchant
• missionary
• caravel

A smaller and faster ship with triangular sails that could sail into the wind

• caravel

• sextant

• astrolabe

• compass

The study and practice of making maps

• cartography

• astrolabe

• sextant

• compass

Spanish word for a person who is out to conquer new territory

• conquistador

• merchant

• missionary

• monarch

One single person who reigns over a kingdom or empire (like a king, queen, emperor, or empress)

• monarch

• conquistador

• missionary

• merchant

A non-existent water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America and would connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

• Northwest Passage

• caravel

• navigation

• cartography

sail all the way around

• circumnavigate
• Northwest Passage
• navigation
• caravel

Countries in Asia, including India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands, that produced silks and spices

• Far East

• Northwest Passage

• New World

• Southwest Passage