Age of Exploration

Sail or travel all the way around the world.

• exploration

• traverse

• Silk Road

• circumnavigate

The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.

• exploration

• Marine Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

The water route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.

• Silk Road

• Marine Silk Road

• colonization

• exploration

Travel across or through.

• exploration

• traverse

• colonization

• circumnavigate

The land route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.

• exploration

• traverse

• Silk Road

• Marine Silk Road

• compass

• octant

• astrolabe

• gunpowder

• compass

• chronometer

• astrolabe

• octant

• chronometer

• sextant

• octant

• gunpowder

• compass

• sextant

• octant

• astrolabe