Chapter 1 and 2 Vocabulary Practice

What is a person who buys and sells goods

• Merchant

• Navigator

• Astrolabe

• Trading Post

What is the process called that sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land?

• Navigation

• Astrolabe

• Caravel

• Technology

What is the tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon, so that sailors can tell how far north or south of the equator they have sailed.

• Astrolabe

• Technology

• Navigation

• Caravel

This is a smaller, lighter ship with triangular sails to better control the wind. What kind is this ship called?

• Caravel

• Astrolabe

• Merchant

• Technology

This is were stores and small settlements where goods could be bought and sold. What is it called?

• Trading Post

• Merchant

• Technology

• Patron

This is a group or person who gives financial support to another person or cause.

• Patron

• Merchant

• Conquistador

• Colony

These people are conquerors.

• Conquistadors

• Patrons

• Merchants

• Expedition

This is an organized journey.

• Expedition

• Empire

• Circumnavigate

• Merchant

This is a group of nations (countries) or people ruled by a single group or leader.

• Empire

• Circumnavigate

• Conquistadors

• Colony

Make it completely around the world

• Circumnavigate

• Expedition

• Conquistadors

• Caravel