Age of Exploration Vocab and Explorers

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Period in the 1400s-1500s when explorers mapped the world.

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Age of Exploration

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Instrument for sailors to observe stars' positions.

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Astrolabe

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Small, fast ship with a broad bow.

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Caravel

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Exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas.

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Columbian Exchange

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Trade route for goods and enslaved people among the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

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Triangular Trade

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Trade route exchanging goods, ideas, and diseases across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas.

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Columbian Exchange

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Explorer known for mapping Pacific islands.

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James Cook

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Explorer known for first circumnavigation of the globe.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Explorer known for discovering the Cape of Good Hope.

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Bartholomew Dias

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Explorer known for piracy and hired by Queen Elizabeth to raid Spanish ships.

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Sir Francis Drake