Early Exploration Vocabulary

caravel

• a device that helped sailors navigate

• a new type of ship that could turn better and sail into the wind

• a new type of compass

• a new technology for studying the stars

Answer explanation

Remember that Columbus's ships the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria were all caravels.

circumnavigate

• the distance across a circle

• sail all the way around

• try to avoid by going around

• changing the size of a circle

Answer explanation

Magellan's crew sailed around or circumnavigated the globe.

Columbian Exchange

• a currency that Columbus used

• a way that Columbus bartered or traded

• the trade that began from Columbus's voyages between the old and new worlds

• an exchange market in South America

Answer explanation

Mrs. Kaibel remarked that she was grateful that the coffee bean was exchanged between our worlds.

mission

• a quest for gold

• a religious quest for Spain

• a Spanish religious settlement

• a Spanish military fort

pueblo

• A Spanish town/market place

• A Spanish fort

• A Spanish church

• A Spanish home

presidio

• A Spanish town

• A Spanish fort

• A Spanish church

• A Spanish home

Treaty of Tordesillas

• a contract between Rome and Spain that divided the world for exploration

• a contract between Portugal and England that divided the world for exploration

• a contract between Spain and France that divided the world for exploration

• a contract between Spain and Portugal that divided the world for exploration

conquistador

• a Spanish explorer

• a Spanish conqueror

• A Spanish doctor

• A Spanish priest

astrolabe

• a device that would allow a sailor to know a ship's location by charting the stars

• a device that showed direction

• a device that could detect other ships

• a device that could steer the ship

The idea that whoever founded an area could own it and rule it was called the