World History
Vocabulary Unit Age of Discovery
Students will define the terms below using the classroom texts and/or the digital text provided in the lesson
‘Resource’ tab: Chapter 14, Section 1 (pages 260 - 265); Chapter 14, Section 2 (pages 267 - 269) Chapter 15,
Section 4 (pages 301 - 304)
1. Christopher Columbus
2. Bartolomeu Dias
3. Vasco da Gama
4. Ferdinand Magellan
5. Age of Exploration
6. Moluccas
7. Prince Henry
8. Cartographer
9. Line of Demarcation
10. Treaty of Tordesillas
11. Circumnavigate
12. Olaudah Equiano
13. Triangular trade
14. Middle Passage
15. Mutiny
16. Indentured servitude
17, The Great Dying