Age of Exploration/Columbus Vocabulary

Ptolemy

• A small and fast sailing ship designed by the Portuguese

• A country in Western Europe that had a fleet of ships that explored the world from 1400 to 1600.

• A Greek geographer, mathematician and astronomer who believed the earth was round back in 120 AD

• The original name of the Caribbean island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic

caravel

• a small and fast sailing ship designed by the Portuguese

• a magnetic device used to find directions, ex. north, south, east and west;

• a hard, dry bread or biscuit, used especially as rations for sailors

• a disease caused by a lack of vitamin c.

indigenous people

• those people that suffer from malnutrition

• people that are royalty such as kings and queens

• people that immigrated recently from another country

• the original residents of an area/region before European colonization

Age of Exploration

• time of renewed interest in learning and knowledge

• when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth and knowledge

• when the thirteen colonies rebelled agaist Great Britain

• form of government with a King or Queen as head of the country

malnutrition

• to plan or direct the route of a ship

• disease caused by the lack of vitamin C.

• lack of proper nutrition due to lack of food, or not eating the right foods; can be deadly.

• a hard, dry bread or biscuit, used especially as rations for sailors

Santo Domingo

• the oldest European settlement in the New World; currently the capital city of Dominican Republic

• the name of Columbus's lead ship

• The city from which Columbus sailed to the New World

• original name of the Caribbean island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic

circumnavigate

• a magnetic device used to find directions, ex. north, south, east and west

• a small and fast sailing ship designed by the Portuguese

• to sail or travel all around something, ex. the world

• to plan and direct the route of a ship

scurvy

• lack of proper nutrition due to lack of food, or not eating the right foods; can be deadly.

• a disease caused by body lice

• a hard, dry bread or biscuit, used especially as rations for sailors.

• a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C; can be deadly

Columbian Exchange

• to barter for goods

• to trade for goods in the country of Colombia

• period of time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.

• the trans-Atlantic exchange of crops, culture and technology that began with Columbus's first voyage in 1492

Hispaniola

• the Age of Exploration for Spain

• originally the name of the Caribbean island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic

• the oldest European settlement in the New World; currently the capital city of Dominican Republic

• a Greek geographer, mathematician and astronomer who believed that the Earth was round back in 120 AD