History - Chapter 2 - Lessons 10-16

A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods.

• caravel

• tacking

• caravan

• Trade

To change the direction of a ship to head into the wind in a zigzag pattern

• latitude

• compass

• quadrant

• tacking

A Portuguese constructed ship with large triangular sails

• caravel

• quadrant

• tacking

• caravan

an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing.

• Compass
• Telescope
• Astrolabe

a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location

• compass

• quadrant

• tacking

• telescope

lines that run east to west around the globe; used to measure distance in degrees from the equator

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Meridian

• Equator

French protestants who were forbidden to settle in America

• Catholics

• Puritans
• Quakers
• Huguenots

Trade with what 2 countries was expensive?

• Russia and Japan

• USA and Canada
• China and India

• Brazil and Argentina

Why did Europeans begin to explore the world?

Select all that apply

• The goods they wanted from India and China were expensive

• To find new continents
• To conquer the world
• They were under pressure from the Islamic religion

Europe was changing in the _________.

• 1900s

• 1400s

• 1800s

• 2000s