Vocabulary Early Explorers

Expedition

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal (usually exploration, research or war)

• A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun

• is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory or land.

• To sail all the way around something (such as the world)

Middle Ages

• the age of about 30-50 years old

• People who trade, buy and sell to earn a living.

• The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of the Constantinople (1453)

• To sail all the way around something (such as the world)

Merchant

• The Spanish word for conqueror

• People who trade, buy and sell to earn a living.

•  a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory or land.

•  A group of Northern Europeans that explored North America BEFORE Christopher Columbus

Astrolabe

• A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun

• A suit for an astronaut

• An instrument for measuring time, especially one designed to keep accurate time in spite of motion or variations in temperature, humidity, and air pressure

• The study of space

Colony

• Member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali (African)

• A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries

•  A group of Northern Europeans that explored North America BEFORE Christopher Columbus

• a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory or land.

navigation

• The act or process of planning out a route or directing the travels of a vehicle such as a ship, car or plane

• Ancient network of road and trip travel that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman empire and then to the rest of the Western world.

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal (usually exploration, research or war)

• When you have an upset stomach

Circumnavigate

• A strip of land that connects two larger lands

• A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries

• Fit for a sea voyage

• To sail all the way around something (such as the world)

caravans

• A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries

• A kind of Dodge Minivan

• The Spanish word for conqueror

• A group of people or animals, often traders, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.

Caravel

• A pastry eaten on ships used to keep the sailors from getting scurvy

• A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries

• A strip of land that connects two larger lands

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal (usually exploration, research or war)

Songhai

• Member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali (African)

• Ancient network of road and trip travel that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman empire and then to the rest of the Western world.

• The song of the sirens in the sea to entice sailors

• a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory or land.