Age of Exploration Word Scramble
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Vocabulary Word | Definition |
monarch | king or queen |
feudal lord | managed the land and people of the manor |
middle class | merchants who focused on business and trade |
saga | an unwritten legend |
Middle Ages | a period of cultural isolation |
manor | large estate owned by a noble |
Crusades | holy wars |
feudal system | a system of managing land |
serf | landless peasants |
Renaissance | a renewed interest in learning |
navigation | the science of piloting ships |
caravel | small sturdy ship with triangular sails |
Age of Exploration | sea captains sailed and mapped the oceans of the world |
enslaved person | one forced to serve another person |
mutiny | seize the captain and take control of the ship |
Taino | Native Americans |
colony | a settlement made in another country |
plantation | large farms that produce only one crop to be sold |
Columbian Exchange | the exchange of goods and ideas and people between Europe and the Americas |
strait | a narrow channel of water |
Northwest Passage | water route to Asia through North America |
African empires | Ghana, Mali, Songhai |
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