Age of Exploration Vocabulary

A grant from the Spanish Crown allowing colonists to collect taxes and force labor from the native inhabitants from that area.

• Conquest
• Encomienda
• Imperialism
• Magna Carta

The relationship between two or more nations where they rely on each other for goods and services.

• Interdependence
• Trade partners
• Triangular Trade
• Columbian Exchange

The trade route where goods and enslaved people were exchanged between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangular Trade
• Transatlantic Slave Trade

The trade route which exchanged goods, ideas, and diseases, across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangular Trade
• Transatlantic Slave Trade

This is a disease that affects a large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time.

• Epidemic
• Pandemic

This is a disease affecting individuals within a whole country, continent, or the whole world.

• Epidemic
• Pandemic 

This explorer is famous for mapping and contacting the islands in the Pacific.

• James Cook
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Ferdinand Magellan

This explorer is famous for being the first to try and circumnavigate the globe.

• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Ferdinand Magellan
• James Cook

This explorer is famous for discovering the Cape of Good Hope.

• Bartholomew Dias
• Henry Hudson
• Christopher Columbus
• James Cook

This explorer is famous for being a pirate that was later hired by Queen Elizabeth to plunder Spanish trade ships for gold.

• James Cook
• Christopher Columbus
• Sir Francis Drake
• Henry Hudson