1. Magellan had no idea how vast the Pacific Ocean was and while the ships were still at sea, the crew ran out of food, nearly _____________________ to death. One sailor wrote about the terrible time. "We ate biscuit.....swarming with warms.....We drank yellow water that had been putrid (rotten) for days....and often we ate sawdust from boards."

2. Europeans of this time had several ___________________for exploring the world such as finding gold, achieving glory, and sharing their faith (religion).

3. Advances in knowledge and technology helped to make the ________________ a period of European ecploration and discovery that lasted from about 1418 to 1620.

4. In the early 1400s, one key advance was in _________ the art and science of mapmaking.

5. During the 1500s, Portugal also began to establish __________________, a territory, under the political and economic control of another country, in Brazil.

6. The Spanish carried diseases that caused deadly _______________ outbreak of a contagious disase which spread quickly and over a wide geographic area, among the Axtecs.

7. Exploration and trade contributed to the growth of ________________ an economic system based on investment of money for profit.

8. If the supply of an item was large and few people wanted it, sellers lowered the price and this kind of system, based on supply and demand, is called a __________________ ________________ an economy in which prices are determined by the buying and selling decisions of individuals in the marketplace.

9. Merchants hired people to work from their own cottages, turning raw materials from overseas into finished products and this growing ___________ ______________, a small-scale business in which people produce goods at home, was especially important in the manufacture of textiles.

10. A fired result of exploration was a new economic policy called ___________, an economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by establishing colonies and controlling trails.

11. Something that has been done or achieved through effort: a result of hard work

12. Satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity

13. The science or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, and livestock.

14. Soiled all around, especially the world, go around or across something

15. A leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the 16th century

16. A group of nations or peoples rules over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign in government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British empire, French empire, Russian empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.

17. A journey especially by a group of people for a specific purpose.

18. An area of study that deals with the location of countries, cities, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc.

19. To have a strong effect on someone or something

20. The status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant

21. Instruments or toools used to guide a ship in any direction such as an astrolabe in compass rose.

22. Something that obstructs or hinders progress.

23. An area of land that has common features and can be defined by natural or artificial features. (Ex: language, government, or religion)

24. An area of land that belongs to or is controlled by a government

25. This Portuguese explorer brought back the first load of spices such as cinnamon and perrper

26. This explorer was Italian---born, had his voyage sponsored by King Ferdiand and Queen Isabella, and thought the Indies, or eastern Asia, lay on the other side of the Atlandic Ocean., He also discovered an island in the Carribbean Sea and claimed it for Spain.

27. This Portguese explorer had a fleet of 13 ships, sailed so far west that he reached the east coast of present-day Brazil, and caimed it for Portugal.

28. This Portuguese explorer's cres sailed to the Spice Islands after he was killed visiting the Philippines, then his crew of 18 sailors were the first people to circumnavigate the Earth.