Early Exploration

The use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something.

• benefit

• empire

• technology

• navigation

A trip taken with the goal of exploring.

• expedition

• empire

• technology

• navigation

A person who sets up and runs a business.

• empire

• entrepreneur

• benefit

• cost

A collection of lands ruled by the nation that won control of them.

• Reconquista

• navigation

• entrepreneur

• empire

The science of planning and following a route.

• navigation

• Reconquista

• cost

• benefit

The effort made to achieve or gain something.

• cost

• entrepreneur

• empire

• technology

The movement to make Spain all Catholic; also called the Reconquest.

• Christopher Columbus

• Leif Erikson

• Reconquista

• empire

A reward that is granted.

• navigation

• technology

• empire

• benefit

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.

• isthmus

• island

• mountain

• headland

An agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters.

• pitch

• scarce

• empire

• treaty