1. Age of Exploration Social Studies Mrs. Ingle’s Class 2010 Created by Stacy Royster & Suzanne Culbreth

2. Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6 100 200 300 400 500

3. The science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

4. Navigation

5. An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and effects many people

6. epidemic

7. A group of people and animals who travel together

8. caravan

9. A tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon

10. Astrolabe

11. A place ruled by a king or queen

12. Kingdom

13. A small community of people living in a new place

14. settlement

15. a cruel system in which people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

16. slavery

17. The use of scientific knowledge and tools to do things better and more rapidly

18. technology

19. The money a business has left over after all the expenses are paid

20. profit

21. To sail completely around something

22. circumnaviagte

23. Someone who buys and sells goods to earn money

24. merchant

25. A line of latitude

26. parallel

27. A religious community where priest taught Christianity

28. mission

29. A line of longitude

30. meridian

31. A large farm or ranch, often with its own village or church

32. hacienda

33. The exact latitude and longitude of a place on a globe

34. absolute location

35. To convince someone to change his or her religion or belief

36. convert

37. An area of land ruled by another country

38. colony

39. The Spanish word for conqueror

40. conquistador

41. A journey to achieve a goal

42. expedition

43. Many nations or territories ruled by a single group or leader

44. empire

45. A violent uprising against a ruler

46. revolt

47. Wanted to find gold and the legendary “fountain of youth”

48. Ponce de Leon

49. First explorer to see the Grand Canyon in Arizona

50. Vesquez de Coronado

51. Conquered the Aztec empire in present day Mexico

52. Hernan Cortes

53. His voyage proved people could sail around the world

54. Ferdinand Magellan

55. Explored eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal

56. Pedro Alvarez Cabral

57. An Italian explorer that made several voyages to South America and the Caribbean

58. Amerigo Vespucci

59. Sailed to present day Panama in Central America

60. Vasco Nunez de Balboa

61. Names of Columbus three ships

62. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria