Age of Exploration Word Search

Find the ships, navigational tools, trade goods, routes, and historical figures of the Age of Exploration.

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About the Age of Exploration Word Search

This puzzle covers the sea voyages and expanding trade networks of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Look for ships such as the Caravel, tools like the Astrolabe, goods including Nutmeg and Silk, and figures such as Magellan and da Gama. Students of world history and geography, and anyone curious about how distant regions became connected, will enjoy these words.

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  • Armada
  • Astrolabe
  • Azores
  • Cabot
  • Calicut
  • Caravel
  • Caribbean
  • Carrack
  • Cartography
  • Chart
  • Clove
  • Colony
  • Columbus
  • Compass
  • Da Gama
  • Dias
  • Drake
  • Empire
  • Fleet
  • Galleon
  • Gold
  • Harbor
  • Ivory
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Madeira
  • Magellan
  • Malacca
  • Moluccas
  • Navigation
  • Nutmeg
  • Passage
  • Pepper
  • Port
  • Portolan
  • Quadrant
  • Route
  • Sextant
  • Silk
  • Silver
  • Strait
  • Sugar
  • Tobacco
  • Tordesillas
  • Trade
  • Treaty
  • Vespucci

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