Vocabulary Quiz European Exploration

A person who travels to a new place to learn about it.

• Missionary
• Colonist
• Explorer
• Conquistador

Exploring unknown regions of the world; Europe began to explore sea routes to Asia for quicker and cheaper trade.

• Colony
• Conquest
• Exploration
• Convert

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

• Missionary
• Colonist
• Explorer
• Conquistador

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• Columbian Exchanges
• Explorers
• Colonies
• Conquistadors

A person who lives in a colony is called

• Explorer
• Colony
• Colonist
• Missionary

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain are called

• Colonists
• Converts
• Columbian Echange
• Conquistadors

The capture or taking of something by force

• Convert
• Conquest
• Explore
• Missionary

To change to a new religion

• Mission
• Convert
• Columbian Exchange
• Explorer

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas (western Hemisphere) and the rest of the world (Eastern Hemisphere) following Columbus's voyages.

• Convert
• Columbian Exchange
• exploration
• explorer