2nd Six Weeks Practice Age of Exploration Vocab
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- Q1Magellan 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 worms. . . . We drank yellow water that had been putrid [rotten] for days . . . and often we ate sawdust from boards.”circumnavigatingaccomplishingachievingstarving120s
- Q2Europeans of this time had several ___________________ for exploring the world such as finding gold, achieving glory, and sharing their faith (religion).navigational toolsadequateobstaclesmotives30s
- Q3Advances in knowledge and technology helped to make the ________________________ a period of European exploration and discovery that lasted from about 1418 to 1620.empireimpactAge of Explorationcolony30s
- Q4In the early 1400s , one key advance was in __________________ the art and science of mapmaking.cartographycircumnavigateimpactachievement30s
- Q5During the 1500s, Portugal also began to establish _________________, a territory, under the political and economic control of another country, in Brazil.empireimpactcoloniesgeography30s
- Q6The Spanish carried diseases that caused deadly ____________________ an outbreak of a contagious disease which spread quickly and over a wide geographic area, among the Aztecs.diseaseepidemicsadequateobstacle30s
- Q7Exploration and trade contributed to the growth of _______________________ an economic system based on investment of money for profit.empireregionmarket economycapitalism30s
- Q8If 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.supply and demandmarket economyadequatecapitalism30s
- Q9Merchants 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.geographical regioncottage industrynavigational toolssupply and demand30s
- Q10A final result of exploration was a new economic policy called ____________________, an economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by establishing colonies and controlling trade.mercantilismcircumnavigategeographycottage industry30s
- Q11something that has been done or achieved through effort: a result of hard workgoalachievementobstaclegeography30s
- Q12satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantitycircumnavigateadequatenavigationachievement30s
- Q13the science or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, & livestockagriculturenavigational toolsindustryproduction30s
- Q14sail all around, especially the world; go around or across somethingexplorecircumnavigatejourneyvoyage30s
- Q15a leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the 16th centuryconquistadorconqueroremperorexplorer30s