Chapter 4 - Explorers of the Americas Review

The science of plotting and controlling the course of a ship.

• slavery

• plantation

• navigation

• Columbian Exchange

forced into slavery

• epidemic

• privateer

• conquistador

• enslaved

a system in which people worked without pay and had no freedom

• slavery

• invasion

• circumnavigate

• rebel

to sail around

• circumnavigate

• legend

• ambush

• invasion

Spanish for conqueror

• legend

• ambush

• immunity

• conquistador

to resist authority

• legend

• Northwest Passage

• conquistador

• rebel

a story handed down from earlier times

• legend

• epidemic

• conquistador

• navigation

to attack by surprise

• Columbian Exchange

• ambush

• rebel

• plantation

describes the people, plants, and animals exchanged across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus' first trip to the Americas

• plantation

• immunity

• Columbian Exchange

• Northwest Passage

large farms

• armada

• rebel

• plantations

• Northwest Passage