Age of Exploration Vocabulary
Across
- 2. never mapped
- 4. a situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of the supply of a good or service
- 7. to preserve meat, fish, or other food by drying, smoking, or salting it
- 8. a group of countries or territories under the control of one government or ruler
- 9. a document issued by authority, giving a group certain rights
- 10. the practice of bringing people from a different country to control and settle an area that already has an indigenous population
- 14. the planting, growing, and harvesting of crops
- 17. relating to the Middle Ages in Europe
- 18. a navigational tool used to determine the position of the sun, a star, or other object in the sky
- 19. a mapmaker
- 20. a large fleet of ships
Down
- 1. a native of the Asian nation of Mongolia
- 3. cruel, unacceptable
- 5. to travel completely around something (such as Earth),especially by water
- 6. goods transported by a ship, plane,or truck
- 10. the Spanish word for conqueror
- 11. chain of islands
- 12. a narrow piece of land that
- 13. someone who represents the government of one country in another
- 15. two larger land masses
- 16. a person who buys and sells goods to earn