Unit 4 Age of Contact Vocabulary

Survivors of a shipwreck

• Castaways

• pirates

• mustangs

• Columbian exchange

A widespread outbreak of a disease

• pandemic

• castaways

• epidemic

• mustangs

a journey especially by a group of people for a specific purpose (such as to explore a distant place or to do research)

• Columbian exchange

• flint

• explorer

• expedition

Settling a new land which is still under the control of the mother country back home

• colonization

• epidemic

• mustang

• castaways

Spanish soldier and explorer. They sailed to the “new world” of the western hemisphere in the 16th century and took control of Mexico, Central America and Peru

• mustang

• conquistador

• flint

• expedition

Term describing the transfer of plans, animals, culture, people and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres since the time of Columbus

• Columbian exchange

• flint

• expedition

• explorers

Very hard quartz stone that sparks when struck by steel

• castway

• mustang

• flint

• diamond

Wild offspring of Spanish horses that got loose after they were brought to the Americas

• flint

• buffalo

• mustangs

• castaways