The document provides a vocabulary list of terms relevant to the Great Age of Exploration period from 1400 to 1550, including navigational instruments like the astrolabe and sextant, important figures like the Aztec emperor Montezuma and the Inca capital of Cuzco, and historical events like the Crusades and Renaissance period.

1. The Great Age of
Exploration 1400-1550
Vocabulary List
Presented by Ronna Williams

2. A navigational instrument to find the
altitude of stars....created by the Arabs
was later replaced by the sextant.
Astrolabe

3. Unsuccessful war by
Christians against Muslims
to recover the Holy Land
~ Also ended Feudalism
Crusades

4. Aztec Emperor
Montezuma

5. Capital of Inca Empire in
Peru
Cuzco

6. seaman or sailor
Mariner

7. An astronomer,
mathematician, and
geographer whose maps
were considered the
best there was.
Ptolemy