My World - Social Studies - Chapter 2 Test Review

people who buy and sell goods

• merchant

• caravel

• patron

• colony

The process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land. Tools helped them to improve sea travel.

• navigation

• conquistador

• expedition

• caravel

A smaller and lighter ship. It had triangular sails to better control the wind.

• caravel

• sail ship

• patron

• empire

gives money to support another person or cause. The queen and king of Spain did this for Christopher Columbus.

• patron

• merchant

• conquistador

• colony

a Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• conquistador

• expedition

• empire

• merchant

An organized journey. Hernan Cortes led one to Mexico in 1519.

• expedition

• empire

• navigation

• Columbian Exchange

a group of nations or peoples ruled by a single group or leader

• empire

• expedition

• Columbian Exchange

• plantation

a settlement or area far from the country that rules it

• colony

• empire

• epidemic

• distinct

an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people

• epidemic

• conquistador

• distinct

• plantation

a movement of people, animals, plants, and cultures between the Eastern and Western hemispheres

• Columbian Exchange

• navigation

• plantation

• expedition