Vocabulary Exploration and Colonization

What is the term for traveling to unknown places to learn about them or find valuable things like land and resources?

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Navigation

• Expedition

What does colonization involve?

• Sending people to live in and control another area

• Building large ships for trade

• Creating maps of new lands

• Collecting gold and silver

What is mercantilism?

• The art of making maps

• An economic idea to get stronger by controlling trade

• A journey to explore new places

• A system of forced labor

What is an empire?

• A small village with a single leader

• A large group of countries controlled by one leader

• A map of new lands

• A journey taken by explorers

What is navigation?

• The science of making maps

• The skill of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

• The process of building empires

• The act of spreading religious beliefs

Who were conquistadors?

• Native American leaders

• Spanish explorers and soldiers

• Mapmakers during the Age of Exploration

• Religious missionaries

What is an expedition?

• A journey to explore new places

• A system of forced labor

• A large group of countries

• A deadly disease

What is cartography?

• The art of making maps

• The process of colonization

• The act of spreading religious beliefs

• The skill of navigation

What does it mean to circumnavigate?

• To travel all the way around something

• To create maps of new lands

• To conquer new territories

• To spread religious beliefs

Who are indigenous people?

• People who create maps

• The first or original inhabitants of a land

• Explorers who travel to new places

• Soldiers who conquer lands