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Wallach - explorers
vocabulary words and definitions to study for exploration unit
Question | Answer |
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exploration | traveling or searching to discover new things |
navigation | science used by sailors to plot their course and determine their location |
saga | long, spoken language tale repeated from one generation to the next |
Silk Road | major land trade route between China and Europe |
expedition | journey for a special purpose |
Northwest Passage | water route that was explorers hoped would connect the Atlantic and the Pacific through North America |
compass | invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north |
merchant | person who buys or trades goods and then sells them |
Scandinavia | region of northern Europe, includes the countires of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark |
Caribbean | region in the west atlantic that borders the coast of South and Central America |
Columbian Exchange | movement of people, goods, diseases, and cultures between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere following the voyages of Columbus |
Emperor | ruler of an empire |