Age of Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

Allowed sailors to measure the angle of the sun on the horizon which would tell them their latitude.

• Conquistador

• Astrolabe

• Old World

• Caravel

Europe, Asia, and Africa before the discovery of the New World.

• New World

• Triangular Trade

• Old World

• Columbian Exchange

The horrific trade route that brought captured, enslaved Africans to the New World.

• Old World

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

Small, lighter, and faster ships ideal for ocean travel.

• Caravel

• Astrolabe

• Mercantilism

• New World

Dominant economic theory of the time that said colonies bring wealth to the mother country. 

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Cartographer

• Mercantilism

Mapmaker

• Astrolabe

• Cartographer

• Caravel

• Middle Passage

The global transfer of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease that began with Columbus’s exploration of the Americas.

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

Spanish explorers who also conquered the lands they found and brought back great wealth to Spain.

• Conquistador

• Mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• Old World

The Western Hemisphere of the Americas which were “discovered” after Columbus landed there in 1492.

• Old World

• New World

• Caravel

• Columbian Exchange

Trade pattern that developed among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves.

• Middle Passage

• Cartographer

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange