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Flashcards by ailbhecrogers, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ailbhecrogers
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| Question | Answer |
| Portolan Charts | Maps made of the coastline on voyages of discovery |
| Caravel | A fast, small ship with triangular 'lateen sails' and a clinker-built hull |
| Carrack / Naos | Ships with square and triangular sails |
| Astrolabe | Used to find a ship's latitude. It measured the angle of the sun or the North star |
| Quadrant / cross-staff | Latitude. Sailors had to look directly into the sun. |
| Log and line | Measure speed. A log was thrown into the sea from the back of the boat. It was attached to a reel of knotted rope. The amount of rope the log pulled in one minute was measured. |
| Hardtack | Biscuits that were often infested with small black beetles |
| Scurvy | Lack of Vitamin C from fresh fruit and veg. Caused gums to bleed and teeth to fall out. |
| Dysentry | Disease got from infected water |
| Log | A record of the voyage kept by the captain |
| New World | Land discovered by Columbus - present day North and South America |
| Mutiny | When the crew disobeys the captain and takes over the ship |
| Straits | A narrow passage between two land masses |
| Conquistador | Explorers who conquered lands and built an empire for Spain |
| Colony | A country that is controlled by another, more powerful country |
| Spanish Main | Spains colonies in the New World |
| Plantation | Large farm where slaves grew crops such as sugar and tobacco |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain and Portugal divided the unknown world between them. Land to the west: Spain |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | - Paid for voyages of exploration to the coast of Africa - Madeira and Azores, Cape Bojador - School for exploration at Sagres |
| Bartholomew Diaz | - Bad storm - Rounded the tip of Africa - Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) |
| Vasco da Gama | Discovered sea route to the East Calicut, India Gained control of the spice trade |
| Pedro Cabral | Discovered Brazil |
| Christopher Columbus | Discovered the New World. San Salvador, Hispaniola, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Jamaica, Panama |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Circumnavigate the world Proved that the world was round |
| Hernando Cortes | Aztecs Captured the Aztec Empire in Mexico |
| Francisco Pizarro | Incas Captured the Incan empire in Peru |
| Montezuma | Aztec ruler |
| Atahualpa | Incan ruler |
| Council of the Indies | Set up by the Spanish to run the new lands that had been conquered for Spain |
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