Exploration Vocabulary

travelling completely around the world, usually by water

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

A land controlled by another nation

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

to travel for the purpose of discovery

• economics

• exploration

• colonize

• conquistador

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• economics

• exploration

• colonize

• conquistador

to steer or direct a ship or airplane

• compass

• navigate

A grant from the Spanish Crown allowing colonists to collect taxes and force labor from the native inhabitants from that area.

• Conquest
• Encomienda
• Imperialism
• Magna Carta

to take control of a country or city through the use of force

• political

• influence

• conquer

• settled

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

A cash crop is harvested for what purpose?

• To feed the farmer's family

• To sell for profit

• To feed the farmer's livestock

• To trade with Native Americans

This policy holds that nations gain power by acquiring wealth and colonies.

• Protestantism

• Mercantilism

• Charter

• Conquistador