Unit 15 - Age of Discovery

5. a grain that grows on the ears of a tall plant; an early ancestor of modern corn.
8. to travel all the way around something.
12. the passage regularly taken by merchant ships, caravans, etc.
13. a sometimes fatal disease caused by not having enough vitamin C in the diet.
14. moving about from place to place without settling down.
15. the waterway that separates Alaska and Russia. Thousands of years ago, the continents of Russia and Asia were connected at this point by a land bridge.
16. a Portuguese explorer whose voyage to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522 brought about the first circumnavigation of the globe.
18. an official agreement between two or more countries or groups.

1. a Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to India by going around Africa between 1497-1498.
2. figuring out where you are and where you are headed based on the position of the sun, moon and stars.
3. to breed or train; to tame a wild animal to live with humans.
4. to go somewhere to learn about the place or find something.
6. a long period of low temperatures on Earth, causing the expansion of ice caps and glaciers.
7. the Western Hemisphere, made up of North and South America.
8. an Italian explorer who led several transatlantic voyages for Spain. He landed in the New World in 1492.
9. a member an advanced Mesoamerican civilization, known for its hieroglyph writing system and indigenous to present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.
10. Portuguese royal, nicknamed "the Navigator," known for funding Portuguese voyages that explored the west coast of Africa in the early 15th century.
11. indigenous people of South American and the Caribbean.
17. a member of an advanced Mesoamerican civilization, indigenous to present-day central Mexico and conquered by Spain in 1519.