Unit 4: Age of Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

What is circumnavigate?

• To travel around something, especially by water or air
• To calculate the circumference of a circle
• To navigate through a difficult situation
• To circumvent a problem

What is a corporation?

• A type of partnership
• A type of sole proprietorship
• A type of business entity that is owned by more than one person

• A type of non-profit organization

What is a conquistador?

• A type of Spanish cheese
• A Spanish or Portuguese explorer
• A type of dance
• A Spanish musical instrument

What is a voyage?

• A type of food
• A type of clothing
• A type of vehicle
• A long journey, especially by ship

What does the word indigenous mean?

• Native to a certain area
• Foreign to a certain area
• Invented in a certain area
• Imported from a certain area

Who were the Tainos?

• A tribe in Africa
• A type of dinosaur
• A group of indigenous people in the Caribbean
• A famous rock band

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• A trade agreement between the USA and Columbia
• A space mission to explore Columbia
• A cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds
• A financial exchange in Columbia

What does the word colonization mean?

• The process of establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
• The process of creating a colony of bees
• The process of colonizing Mars
• The process of colonizing the human body with bacteria

What is imperialism?

• A type of government where a single person rules
• A policy or ideology of extending a nation's rule over foreign nations
• A system where the government owns and controls all property
• A type of government that is based on the belief in absolute authority

What does merchantilism mean?

• An economic system in which a country exports more than they import to make a profit.

• A type of government system
• A form of art in the Renaissance period
• A scientific theory