Exploration Vocabulary QUIZ

the science of controlling a ship's direction and planning routes

• expedition

• navigation

• caravel

• Mercantilism

Religious settlements in the New World, set up by the Spanish, to spread the Catholic religion

• Columbian Exchange

• Age of Discovery

• missions

• Encomienda System

Gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work; the settlers were supposed to protect the natives and convert them to Christianity

• Encomienda System

• tribute

• Mercantilism

• cartography

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' voyages.

• Encomienda System

• Age of Discovery

• Mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

crops grown for the purpose of selling rather than consuming by the grower

• astrolabe

• caravel

• Encomienda System

• cash crops

Trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas (across the Atlantic Ocean)

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Age of Discovery

• Northwest Passage

a period of time from the mid-1400s to 1700 in which Europeans explored and mapped the new world; also called the Age of Exploration

• Columbian Exchange

• Encomienda System

• Age of Discovery

• Circumnavigate

an economic policy where a nation can increase its wealth by creating and trading with colonies

• Rivalry

• Mission System

• Mercantilism

• Tribute System

competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field

• cartography

• expedition

• rivalry

• chronometer

a person who travels and attempts to convert new people to their religion

• Tribute

• Rivalry

• Caravel

• Missionary