Early Exploration & Colonization Vocabulary

This was widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and Europe.

• Cultural Exchange

• Columbian Coffee

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

"In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue." He was the Italian explorer, financed by Spain, who ventured into the Americas.

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Champlain

This describes a serious disagreement, an argument, or a clash.

• conflict
• cooperation
• manufacturing
• navigation

This is the study of producing (making) things, consuming (buying) things, wealth, trade, and money.

• psychology
• history
• fiction
• economics

Which navigational tool would help people determine directions?

• compass
• ship
• oar
• telescope

The name used to describe Spanish explorers/conquerors was...

• captain
• explorer
• navigator
• conquistador

When something is better than the rest, it is said to be...

• superior
• immune
• motivated
• navigated

If you are trying to win something by defeating others who are also trying to achieve the same goal, you are...

• navigating
• competing
• circumnavigating
• manufacturing

What do you call the driving force for why somebody chooses to do something?

• an obstacle
• an accomplishment
• a motivation
• an immunity

When one country has full or partial control over another (usually far away) country, and the people occupy that far-away country, this is called a(n)...

• colony
• exploration
• epidemic
• pandemic