Age of Exploration - Pre-Test

A map maker

• encomienda

• conquistador

• cartographer

A device used to measure the angle of the sun and the stars above the horizon

• astrolabe

• Pilgrim

• circumnavigate

to sail around the world

• astorlabe

• missionaries

• circumnavigate

land and native slaves given to Spanish rulers

• encomienda

• tariff

• scurvy

setup throughout colonies to spread Christianity

• missionaries

• cartographer

• conquistador

Spanish settlers

• peninsulares

• astrolabe

• encomienda

Spanish conqueror

• tariff

• conquistador

• missonaries

English Protestants who rejected practices of the Church of England

• tariff

• cartographer

• Pilgrim

tax on imported goods

• scurvy

• peninsulares

• tariff

Which of the following best explained why European rulers encouraged ocean exploration?

• They wanted to find new trade routes

• They wanted to conquer new lands

• They wanted to spread Islam.