Age of Exploration

Expedition

• Term used to describe the movement to spread Catholicism in Spain. This movement lasted for centuries.
• This Spanish conquistador crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal.
• Term used to describe one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 1500s. This is the Spanish word for conqueror.

Middle Ages

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal.
• The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (400s) to the fall of Constantinople (1400s).
• A navigational instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.
• A water route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that runs along the northern coast of North America. People erroneously believed that a Northwest Passage existed through the middle of North America.

Astrolabe

• A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun.
• The act of planning out a route or directing the travels of a vehicle such as a ship or car.
• A water route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that runs along the northern coast of North America. People erroneously believed that a Northwest Passage existed through the middle of North America.
• In 1540 this Spaniard led an expedition to North America in search of a "city of gold." He never found treasure but he did discover the Grand Canyon.

Colony

• A water route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that runs along the northern coast of North America. People erroneously believed that a Northwest Passage existed through the middle of North America.
• A group of people from one country who build a settlement in another land.
• This man who sailed for Spain is erroneously credited with discovering America, but his four expeditions did begin an age of colonization of the New World and an exchange between the Old World and the New World.
• An ancient network that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman Empire and then the rest of the world.

Navigation

• A navigational instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.
• The back and forth movements of "new" plants, animals, and goods from Europe to the Americas. Horses and disease came to the New World while chocolate and potatoes came to the Old World for the first time.
• A strip of land that connects two larger land masses.
• The act of planning out a route or directing the travels of a vehicle such as a ship or car.

Silk Road

• In 1540 this Spaniard led an expedition to North America in search of a "city of gold." He never found treasure but he did discover the Grand Canyon.
• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal.
• An ancient network that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman Empire and then the rest of the world.
• He was an Italian explorer who, in 1497, accidentally discovered land in what is today Canada. He was searching for a Northwest Passage.

Circumnavigate

• This Spanish conquistador crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
• To sail all the way around something (such as the world).
• Term used to describe one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 1500s. This is the Spanish word for conqueror.
• A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun.

Caravel

• A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun.
• This group of people from Scandinavia beat Columbus to the new world by hundreds of years. Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson were part of this group.
• A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 1400s and 1500s capable of sailing against the wind.
• He was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa becoming the first known European to reach the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.

Conquistador

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal.
• In 1540 this Spaniard led an expedition to North America in search of a "city of gold." He never found treasure but he did discover the Grand Canyon.
• Term used to describe the movement to spread Catholicism in Spain. This movement lasted for centuries.
• Term used to describe one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 1500s. This is the Spanish word for conqueror.

Isthmus

• The act of planning out a route or directing the travels of a vehicle such as a ship or car.
• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal.
• A water route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that runs along the northern coast of North America. People erroneously believed that a Northwest Passage existed through the middle of North America.
• A strip of land that connects two larger land masses.