Sailors and Navigation Quiz

What is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes called?

• Navigation

• Technology

• Merchant

• Devastation

What is a store set up in a distant place to allow trade to occur?

• Navigation

• Trading Post

• Devastation

• Technology

What term describes the capture, enslavement, buying, and selling of people for profit?

• Merchant

• Slave Trade

• Carvel

• Astrolabe

Which of the following is a tool used by sailors?

• Astrolabe

• Merchant

• Devastation

• Slave Trade

Which term is associated with harm and destruction?

• Devastation

• Technology

• Navigation

• Trading Post

Which of the following is a place for commerce?

• Trading Post

• Carvel

• Astrolabe

• Navigation

What is a group of nations or peoples ruled by a single authority known as?

• Empire

• Colony

• Expedition

• Patron

What is the process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land?

• Navigation

• Technology

• Trading Post

• Epidemic

What term describes the capture, enslavement, buying, and selling of people for profit?

• Epidemic

• Slave Trade

• Carvel

• Astrolabe

What is the term for a person who supports the work of another person or organization, often with money?

• Conquistador

• Patron

• Empire

• Colony