2nd Vocabulary Entry

1. Journey
    Meaning: an occasion when you travel from one place to another, especially when there is a long distance between the places.


2. Adventure
    Meaning: an unusual, exciting and daring experience.


3. Cruise:
    Meaning: a journey on a ship for pleasure, especially one that involves visiting a series of places.


4. Crossing
    Meaning: a journey by boat across a river or sea.


5. Expedition
    Meaning: a long journey organized for a particular purpose, especially to a dangerous or distant place.


6. Outing
    Meaning: a short journey that you take for enjoyment.


7. Mystery tour
    Meaning: a short journey, usually in a bus that people make for pleasure without knowing where they are going.


8. Ride
    Meaning: a journey on a horse or other animal, on a bicycle or motorcycle or in a vehicle.


9. Voyage
    Meaning: a long journey, especially by boat or into space.


10. Mariner
      Meaning: seaman or sailor.  


11. Ptolemy
      Meaning: an astronomer, mathematician and geographer whose maps were considered the best there was.


12. Black death
      Meaning: a disease carried by rat fleas. 


13. Aztecs
      Meaning: North American tribe with a high level of civilization. 


14. Codex
      Meaning: a colorfully illustrated by Aztecs book


15. Atahualpa
      Meaning: ruler of the Incan Empire when the Spanish conquered them.


16. Circumnavigate
      Meaning: to sail completely around the world.


17. Conquistadors
      Meaning: Spanish conquerors.


18. Caravel
      Meaning: a small fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese explorer.


19. San Salvador
      Meaning: the name Columbus gave to the islands and now called the Bahamas.


20. Astrolabe
     Meaning: a navigational instrument to find the altitude of stars created by the Arabs and was later replaced by the sextant.