Exploration Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Monopoly | Complete control of selling a product or service |
Circumnavigate | Sail around the world |
Archipelago | Group or Chain of Islands |
Cartographer | Mapmaker |
Mutiny | Sailors overthrowing the captain on a ship |
Charter | Permission to found a colony in the Americas |
Scurvy | A disease caused by the lack of vitamin C |
Strait | A narrow waterway that connects two bodies of water |
Hull | The sides and bottom of a boat |
Royal Standard | Explorers raised this when they claimed a region for their monarch. |
Columbus | Was sponsored to find a western route to the East Indies |
Drake | Defeated the Spanish Armada |
Verrazano | Sailed into New York Harbor |
Magellan | Was a Portuguese who led a Spanish expedition |
Polo | Wrote about his visit to China |
Raleigh | Founded the Roanoke Colony |
Hudson | Sailed as far as Albany, NY |
Champlain | Founded a settlement in what is now Quebec City |
Cabot | Was an Italian who led an English expedition (changed his name) |
Balboa | Claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain |
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