Exploration of the Western Hemishpere

The act of traveling in search of new lands, ideas, and/or things

• voyage

• Exploration

• caravel

• colony

A long and difficult travel route by sea

• caravel

• Middle Passage

• exploration

• voyage

An instrument with a magnetic pointer that points north and helps with directions.

• caravel

• astrolabe

• compass

• conquistador

: A scientific instrument that was used to determine a ship’s location by measuring the angle of the sun or a star

• astrolabe

• caravel

• compass

• conquistador

A small, fast ship which could easily maneuver the winds and sail close to shore

• astrolabe

• compass

• caravel

• Middle Passage

A Spanish explorer and conqueror

• caravel

• Indigenous

• Conquistador

• Colony

An all-water route that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean by voyaging above North America through the Arctic Ocean

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road

A territory that is controlled by a stronger country.

• colony

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• caravel

Native to the land

• alien

• colony

• conquistador

• indigenous

: The dangerous and deadly journey of African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean who were forced to work in the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

• Colony