Key Terms in Age of Exploration and Colonial History Save Groups

Cartographer

mapmaker

Circumnavigate

to travel completely around the world

Sovereign

having full independent power

Conquistador

Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s

Viceroy

representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name; one who governed in India in the name of the British Monarch

Privateers

privately owned ship commissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships especially merchants ships

Pilgrims

English protestants who rejected the church of England

Compact

An agreement among people

Missionary

Someone sent to promote religious conversion in a territory or foreign country

Mutiny

revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers

Inflation

Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available

Mercantilism

policy in which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver