TCI Lesson 4-5 Age of Exploration

the period of time, beginning in the late 1400s, in which European explorers sought new routes to Asia and discovered the Americas

• Age of Exploration

• Archeologist

• Astrolabe

• Cash Crop

a crop that is grown in large quantities for sale

• explorer

• Cash Crop

• astrolabe

• colony

a community ruled by another country, not by its own people

• New World

• colony

• astrolabe

• nation-state

a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain

• New World

• colony

• explorer

• Conquistador

a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another as germs are spread by touch or through the air

• archeologist

• explorer

• contagious disease

• Northwest Passage

Southeast Asia, including India, Indonesia, and Malaysia

• East Indies

• New World

• The Americas

• Northwest Passage

the supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found

• The Americas

• The Northwest Passage

• The East Indies

• colony

a scientist who studies artifacts to learn about past cultures

• Explorer

• archaeologist

• cash crop

• Age of Exploration

an early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars

• astrolabe

• compass

• cash crop

• colony

a person who travels in search of new geographical information

• explorer

• conquistador

• archaeologist

• colony