Unit 2: Age of Exploration

Ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind

• caravel
• magnetic compass
• astrolabe
• Circumnavigate

Tool used by explorers to determine their ship’s location by the position of the stars

• caravel
• magnetic compass
• astrolabe
• circumnavigate

Device that told sailors which direction they were traveling.

• caravel
• magnetic compass
• astrolabe
• circumnavigate

Italian sailor who believed he could reach Asia by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean

• Conquistador
• Christopher Columbus
• Columbian Exchange
• protestant

Imaginary line dividing the Atlantic Ocean

• Line of Demarcation
• Circumnavigate
• Columbian Exchange
• Northwest Passage

To travel all the way around the globe

• Caravel
• Northwest Passage
• Circumnavigate
• Conquistador

Transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa

• Conquistador
• Spanish Armada
• circumnavigate
• Columbian Exchange

Spanish explorer who took land in the Americas

• Caravel
• Astrolabe
• Charter
• Conquistador

System that forced Native Americans to work for Spanish Settlers and convert to christianity in exchange for protection.

• Conquistador
• Spanish Armada
• Line of demarcation
• Enconmienda System

Large farms that grow 1 crop

• Enconmienda System
• Spanish Armada
• Plantation
• Protestant