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Unit 2 Vocabulary

Exploration & Colonization

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Astrolabe A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars.
Caravels Ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind and had rudders to improve steering.
Christopher Columbus An Italian navigator who was convinced he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan A Portuguese navigator who was the first to sail around the world.
Circumnavigate To travel all the way around.
Columbian Exchange The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Northwest Passage A non-existent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Charter An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.
Immune Having a natural resistance to disease.
Middle Passage A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
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