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Age of Exploration Vocabulary

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A grant from the Spanish Crown allowing colonists to collect taxes and force labor from the native inhabitants from that area.
a)
Conquest
b)
Encomienda
c)
Imperialism
d)
Magna Carta
2.
The relationship between two or more nations where they rely on each other for goods and services.
a)
Interdependence
b)
Trade partners
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Columbian Exchange
3.
The trade route where goods and enslaved people were exchanged between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Transatlantic Slave Trade
4.
The trade route which exchanged goods, ideas, and diseases, across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Transatlantic Slave Trade
5.
This is a disease that affects a large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time.
a)
Epidemic
b)
Pandemic
6.
This is a disease affecting individuals within a whole country, continent, or the whole world.
a)
Epidemic
b)
Pandemic 
7.
This explorer is famous for mapping and contacting the islands in the Pacific.
a)
James Cook
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Henry Hudson
d)
Ferdinand Magellan
8.
This explorer is famous for being the first to try and circumnavigate the globe.
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
James Cook
9.
This explorer is famous for discovering the Cape of Good Hope.
a)
Bartholomew Dias
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
James Cook
10.
This explorer is famous for being a pirate that was later hired by Queen Elizabeth to plunder Spanish trade ships for gold.
a)
James Cook
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Sir Francis Drake
d)
Henry Hudson