Grade 8 Unit 2 Age of Exploration Power Words

Fit or safe for a sea voyage

A group of people or animals, often traders, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.

A strip of land that connects two larger lands.

A group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land.

Spanish word for Conquerer

To sail all the way around something (such as the world).

Attributed to experimentation in Chinese – Europeans discovered and used to fuel cannons and guns while sailing.

Ancient network of travel that brought goods from China to the Roman Empire and then to the rest of the Western world.

The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the fall of Constantinople (1453)

A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular goal (usually exploration, research, or war)

The act or process of planning out a route or directing the travels of a vehicle such as a ship, car, or plane.

People who trade, buy, and sell to earn a living.

A tool that measures the positions of the stars or sun.

A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.

A water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America.

This group of people explore North America BEFORE Christopher Columbus

An instrument for measuring time, especially one designed to keep accurate time in spite of sailing conditions.

Member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali (Africa).

A movement to spread Catholicism in Spain