European Explorers Vocabulary Quiz

A disease that causes a high death rate, affects many people, and spreads easily:

• competition

• empire

• plague

• adequate

An effort to get something wanted by others or to excel others:

• superiority

• conquered

• navigational tools

• competition

A group of different, often widespread states, nations, or territories under a single ruler is known as a/an:

• obstacles

• accomplishment

• empire

• plague

The quality or condition of being much better than the usual:

• enslaved

• superiority

• obstacles

• economic

Something that stands in the way or interferes is a/an:

• achievement

• exchanged goods

• obstacle

• technologies

Instruments used to chart or control the course and position of a ship:

• exchanged goods

• conflict

• cooperation

• navigational tools

Equal to what is needed, good enough or sufficient:

• adequate

• interaction

• empire

• economic

Goods from one country that are traded or sold to another country are known as:

• exchanged goods

• technologies

• interactions

• enslaved

A Spanish word for a person who conquers others by using force to take whatever he wants:

• superiority

• adequate

• conflict

• Conquistadors

To defeat or win control of by use of force, as in war:

• technologies

• conquered

• enslaved

• technologies