Age of Exploration Word Scramble
Unscramble 20 Age of Exploration terms — Columbus, circumnavigate, colony, conquistador, and more. Each answer reveals an encyclopedic definition.
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Age of Exploration: When the World Got Smaller
The Age of Exploration (1400s–1600s) connected the Eastern and Western hemispheres for the first time, transforming global trade, spreading European power, and triggering exchanges of people, plants, animals, and diseases that permanently changed every society on Earth.
European Explorers
Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, and Dutch explorers mapped coastlines, charted seas, and established contact with civilizations across the Americas, Africa, and Asia — driven by trade profits, religious zeal, and royal ambition.
The Columbian Exchange
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old and New Worlds after 1492. Potatoes, tomatoes, and corn transformed European diets; European diseases devastated Native American populations.
Colonization and Conquest
European powers established colonies, displacing and often enslaving indigenous peoples. Spanish conquistadors overthrew the Aztec and Inca empires; the Atlantic slave trade carried millions of Africans to the Americas.
Navigation Technology
New tools — the compass, astrolabe, caravel ships, and better maps — made long ocean voyages possible, enabling the age of discovery that rewrote the world map.