Age of Exploration

An instrument used to make astronomical measurements of stars to calculate latitude. Fill in the blank: __________

• Astrolabe

• Barometer

• Thermometer

• Sextant

Spanish explorer who conquered new territories. Who is he?

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Missionary

• Caballero

Company chartered from the Netherlands to carry out trade activities in Asia. Fill in the blank: __________

• Dutch East India Company

• British East India Company

• French East India Company

• Portuguese East India Company

One leg of the triangular trade. This leg was where Africans were forcibly transported to the new world as slaves. Fill in the blank: __________

• Middle Passage

• Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

• Northwest Passage

The three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade. Fill in the blank: __________

• Triangular Trade

• Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

A system in which a country tries to make money from exporting more goods than it imports. Fill in the blank: __________

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

• Socialism

Refers to the eastern hemisphere. Fill in the blank: __________

• Old World

• New World

• Americas

• Antarctica

Refers to the western hemisphere. Fill in the blank: __________

• New World

• Old World

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Asia

The desire to spread ​ (a)   also motivated European exploration

• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Islam
• Muslim

Match the following:

• Spread Religion

• God

• Find Riches

• Gold

• Expand Empire

• Glory