Social Studies Chapter 2 - Vocabulary - Age of Exploration

getting, transporting, and selling human beings

• colony

• trade in enslaved people

• navigation

• empire

a country or area under the control of another country

• empire

• conquistador

• plantation

• colony

a small, fast sailing ship

• merchant

• conquistador

• astrolabe

• caravel

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors in North or South America in the 1500s.

• empire

• conquistador

• caravel

• colony

a widespread disease

• epidemic

• colony

• plantation

• empire

an instrument used in navigation that measures the sun and stars

• compass

• caravel

• navigation

• astrolabe

a large group of states or countries

• empire

• colony

• conquistador

• epidemic

a person who buys and sells goods for profit

• colony

• patron

• trader

• merchant

the movement of people, animals, plants, and cultures between the Eastern and Western hemispheres

• Cultural Diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

• Ethnic Classification

• Mestizos

a journey or voyage

• patron

• expedition

• organized

• empire