Age of Exploration Vocab

A person who is a citizen of a country in Europe.

• European
• American Indian
• Colonization

A person who explores a new area or new land.

• European
• Explorer
• Glory

The act of travelling to a new place to search for something.

• effect
• colonization
• exploration

A way to get from one place to another.

• colony
• cause
• route

The continents of North and South America.

• American Indian
• New World
• colony

A metal that is very valuable.

• gold
• glory
• God

Great honor, praise or fame

• gold
• glory
• God

Creator of the universe.

• gold
• glory
• God

A place where people lived when they moved to the New World.

• New World
• colony
• route

The building of colonies by European countries to set up control in the New World.

• colonization
• exploration
• colony