Explorers Vocab: Fast and Curious

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

• Mercantalism

• Triangular Trade

• Conquistador

• Astrolabe

instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars

• map

• astrolabe

• astrology

• rudder

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• Exploration

• Conquistador

• Middle Passage

• Mercantilism

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

• Treaty of Peace

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Tacos

• Triangular Trade

The regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas (Europe, Asia, Africa)

• New World

• Charter

• Western Hemisphere

• Old World

The name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus

• Old World

• New World

• Europe

• Western Hemisphere

The massive exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World and New World following Columbus's voyages.

• Divine Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• European Exchange

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• Conquistador

• Crusader

• Aztec Warriors

• Inca Warriors

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• contract

• charter

• triangular trade

• conquistador

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Final Passage

• Triangle Exploration