Age of Exploration Vocabulary 1

Common Good

• Northwest Ocean Trade

• A contract given to someone to establish a colony

• A complaint

• Benefit to all citizens or community a whole

Slavery

• Consume all of one's attention or time

• Hired farm or plantation worker

• The treatment of people as property

• hired for a specific amount of time in exchange for payment

Conquistadors

• Plants or animals that live and breed in a human environment

• The main character in Marco Polo's book

• Spanish explorers

• Indigenous people in South America

Mercantilism

• A Tax on goods

• An economic policy where a Nation can increase its wealth by creating and trading with colonies

• A trade route to Asia

• Form of government in Europe

Columbian Exchange

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas

• To refer to something

• Trade gold for goods

• A place of safety, especially for religious worship

Northwest Passage

• The period of lively new thinking

• A Northern ocean trade route around North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• A Land bridge connecting Asia and the Americas

• A narrow passage between Europe and Africa

Missionary

• A religious leader

• An economic policy

• A person who attempts to convert people

• A group of pilgrims

Indigenous

• European explorers

• Foods that are grown in a particular country

• Explorers from a different country

• Living naturally in a particular region; native

Persecute

• To include

• To worship

• To treat an individual or group cruelly

• To show favoritism

Colony

• A place of refuge or safety

• A Temple

• A violent action

• A group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a new land