A World of Explorations

3. The art of guiding a ship from place to place safely.
4. A path used by traders.
7. The part of the world that was known by Europeans before the Age of Exploration; The eastern hemisphere (Europe, Asia, and Africa).
9. One-half of the Earth. The northern and southern hemispheres are divided by the equator. The eastern and western hemispheres are divided by the meridian.
12. Indigenous civilizations which rose, flourished, and fell in the Americas before 1492.
13. A small, fast ship used by Spanish and Portuguese explorers for long journeys.
14. Slave Trade From 1500-1800, millions of Africans were captured and forced onto ships going to the Americas. Once there, they were sold into slavery.

1. A navigational tool that uses a magnetized needle. This magnetic needle aligns with the Earth’s magnetic field to point north.
2. A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners. This was also called the Age of Discovery.
5. A colonizer, especially one of the Spanish conquerors in the New World.
6. The act of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
8. The part of the world that was not known by Europeans before the Age of Exploration; the western hemisphere (North and South America).
10. When a person owns another person as property.
11. Exchange An exchange of diseases, plants, animals, and humans between the Old World and the New World.