Unit 1 Vocabulary

1. a group of people who travel together for safety
2. the process of spreading ideas from one culture to another
4. to travel all the way around the Earth
9. a place or region newly settled
10. a town in the Spanish colonies
12. Road a network of overland trade routes linking China to the Middle East
13. a device made of cord or string with knots that stood for quantities
14. a wide shelf of land cut into a hillside
16. an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land

1. Exchange the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemisphere.
3. a political unit that controls a city and its surrounding area
5. a society or a people sharing language, territory, and economy
6. a navigational instrument used to determine latitude
7. a system of rule by lords who ruled their own lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch
8. sun dried brick
9. an excess, or an extra amount
11. a thick sheet of ice
15. a raised road made of packed earth