Friday, March 9, 2012

6-10 Vocab- Review first ten vocab...No School Monday!!!

6 Strait- a narrow body of water that connects to larger bodies of water....Strait of Magellan is at the tip of South America

7. Line of Demarcation- an imaginary line that split the world in two Spain and Portugal for exploration  kind of like when you split the back seat of a car between you and your siblings....

8. northwest passage- a non-existent water route that the English tried to find to sail west from Europe to get to Asia

9. circumnavigate- to go around something...to sail around the world

10. caravel- a type of ship that combined the triangle sails (Arab invention) and the large sailing vessels of the European boats.... now these explorers can sail in any diretion

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