Twenty Explorers: Age of Exploration & VOCAB

This explorer made a total of four voyages from 1492 - 1502 across the Atlantic Ocean, "discovered" a New World, America, and named the natives there, Indians.

• John Cabot (England)

• Christopher Columbus (Spain)

• Ferdinand Magellan (Spain)

What is an ASTROLABE?

• Another name for a mapmaker

• group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland

• A device used to measure the angle of the sun and the stars above the horizon. (instrument used to determine latitude)

• A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.

A COLONY means

• A group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. Colony comes from the Latin word, colonia, meaning "settled land, farm."

• A Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from Native Americans (Spanish Plantations) OR land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers

• An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

What is a CARTOGRAPHER?

• a conquistador

• a royal

• a governor

• a mapmaker

Ferdinand Magellan led the 1st expedition to circumnavigate the world. He was killed in a battle in the Philippines in 1521, so his crew finished the journey around the world. What did he or his crew accomplish?

• Ferdinand Magellan led the 1st expedition to mapped the world.

• Ferdinand Magellan led the 1st expedition to conquer the world.

• Ferdinand Magellan led the 1st expedition to sail (completely) around the world.

A Conquistador is

• An English pilgrim who settled in the Americas.

• A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.

• A mapmaker who worked for Prince Henry the Navigator.

An ECOMIENDA means

• an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• a Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from Native Americans (Spanish Plantations) OR land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers

Mercantilism is

• an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• a Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from Native Americans (Spanish Plantations) OR land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers

• people who work to spread their religious beliefs by setting up colonies to spread Christianity

A mestizo is

• an American born in England or of English ancestry

• a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

• one's family or ethnic descent

The Middle Passage was a

• a Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from Native Americans (Spanish Plantations) OR land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers

• an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies