Age of Exploration/Atlantic Slave Trade Vocabulary

A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and tradinng partners. Called also the "Age of Discovery."

• trade route

• Age of Exploration

• astrolabe

• colonization

One-half of the Earth. The northern and southern hemispheres are divided by the equator. The eastern and western hemisheres are divided by the meridian.

• Conquistador

• caravel

• hemisphere

• equator

A path used by traders.

• navigation

• slavery

• trade route

• Columbian Exchange

The art of guiding a ship from place to place safely.

• trading

• caravel moving

• slavery

• navigation

A small, fast ship used by the Spanish and the Portuguese explorers for long journey.

• astrolabe

• colonization

• caravels

• Lincoln Navigator

A navigational tool that uses a magnetized needle. This magnetic needle aligns with the Earth's magnetic field to point north.

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

• map

• sextant

A tool used to measure a ship's latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the stars.

• caravel

• sextant

• magnetic compass

• astrolabe

The act of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous or native people of an area.

• slavery

• conquistador

• colonization

• none of these

A colonizer, especially one of the Spanish conqueror in the New World.

• Conquistador

• Caravel

• Explorer

• All of these

Indigenous or native civilizations which rose, flourished, and fell in the Americas before 1492 when Columbus sailed.

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Pre-Columbian civilization

• Old World