WHII Unit 3: Age of Discovery Vocab and People

An instrument used in navigation that used astronomy to determine direction

• Compass
• Ruler
• Astrolabe

• Telescope

Meaning “conqueror” in Spanish, these were the leaders of the conquest of native cultures in the Americas

• conquistadors
• mercenaries
• settlers
• explorers

The trade route between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, in which goods from each location were traded at the next location to pay for the last.

• Straight Trade
• Square Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Circular Trade

The intentional and unintentional exchange of ideas, food, diseases, people, and animals between the Old World and the New World

• Astrolabe

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

An economic trade system in which nations would use their military strength to ensure that local trade markets and supply sources were well protected.

• Pacifism
• Free trade
• Isolationism
• Mercantilism

The parts of the world known to Europeans before exploration, which consisted of Africa, Europe, and Asia.

• Euro-Asia
• Old World

• New World

• Roman Empire

Creating maps

• cartography

• exploration

• metereology

• mercantilism

Portuguese prince

• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry the Navigator

Sponsored several exploration attempts, most famously being Columbus.

• Queen Isabella I of Castille

• Queen Elizabeth I

• the Pope

• Queen Mary I

Commissioned Sir Francis Drake in 1572 to sail to the Americas to raid the Spanish for gold

• Queen Elizabeth I
• King Henry VIII
• Queen Mary I
• King James I