Micronesia Vocabulary Quiz

Seafaring = Using the sea for transportation.

• True

• False

Expansion = Extending the nation beyond its existing borders.

• True

• False

Cultural Diffusion = The belief that aspects of one's culture are superior to another's.

• True

• False

Micronesia = The islands of the western Pacific east of the Philippines and north of Melanesia including the Caroline, Kiribati, Mariana, and Marshall groups.

• True

• False

Reciprocity = Small communities that are started in a new place.

• True

• False

Colony = A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• True

• False

Illnesses

• Diseases

• Colonization

• Parasites

• Epidemic

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

• Conquests

• Coronado

• Expansion

• Conquistadors

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.

• Expansion Diffusion

• Cultural Ecology

• Culture Region

• Cultural Diffusion

Movement of individuals out of an area.

• Navigation

• Emigration

• Cultural Diffusion

• Expansion