European Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

What is a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of the skies?

• Binoculars

• Astrolabe

• Telescope

• Magnifying glass

What was the Columbian Exchange ?

• The Triangular Trade

• Expeditions led by Cristopher Columbus

• Trading in Columbia

• the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa

What is a device for determining directions by means of a magnetic needle or group of needles turning freely on a pivot and pointing to the North.

• Compass

• GPS

• Colony

• Needle

What is Slavery?

• Better communication technology and advanced weaponry

• a Free Person

• the state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another

• Tools

What is a system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

• Food supply

• Tariff

• Imports and Exports

• Triangular Trade

What is a Conquistador?

• a leader in the Spanish conquest of America and especially of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

• Indigenous people

• a King

• an Emperor

What is a group of people who settle together in a new place?

• a source of trade

• Colony

• the Columbian Exchange

• Exports

What is a person who makes maps?

• Locksmith

• Blacksmith

• Cartographer

• Explorer

What was the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas?

• The Crusades

• The Middle Passage

• the longest voyage

• Underground Railroad

What is a Missionary?

• a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission

• a doctor

• a European explorer

• a soldier