Age of Exploration

2. A small, fast ship used by Spanish and Portuguese explorers for long journeys.
5. When a person owns another person as property.
7. From 1500s-1800s, millions of Africans were captured and forced onto ships going to the Americas, once there, they were sold into slavery.
8. To sail or travel around the world.
10. Exchange Widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, humans, ideas, and tech between the New and Old World.
13. A path used by traders
14. A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land and goods.
16. A system where a government seeks to increase its size by making other countries submit.
17. A colonizer, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of the New World.
18. Someone who makes maps

1. A system where one country uses another by exporting more goods than it imports.
3. ½ of the Earth
4. The part of the world that was unknown by Europeans before the Age of Exploration.
6. Loyalty or devotion to one’s country
9. A tool to measure a ship’s latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the stars.
11. The art of guiding a ship from place to place safely.
12. The act of settling among and establishing control over
15. The part of the world that was known by Europeans before the Age of Exploration.