Age Of Exploration

Question 0

Carrick

Answer 0

A large ship

Question 1

Caravel

Answer 1

A small fast ship copied by the Arabs

Question 2

Astrolabe

Answer 2

A tool used to find the ships position north or south of the equator

Question 3

Compass

Answer 3

A tool used for navigation. A magnetic needle points to a magnetic north

Question 4

Log and line

Answer 4

Measures the ships speed

Question 5

Captain

Answer 5

The person in charge of the ship

Question 6

First mate

Answer 6

Assists the captain

Question 7

Hardtack

Answer 7

A biscuit eaten by sailors usually infested with beetles

Question 8

Scurvy

Answer 8

A disease you catch at sea by lack of vitamin C

Question 9

Dysentery

Answer 9

Disease caused by drinking infected water

Question 10

Conquistador

Answer 10

A conqueror

Question 11

Aztec

Answer 11

An American Indian tribe in Mexico in the 1500s

Question 12

Inca

Answer 12

An ancient race of people

Question 13

Colony

Answer 13

When one country or area is controlled by another

Question 14

Plantation

Answer 14

An estate on which crops grow

Question 15

Smallpox

Answer 15

A contagious disease

Question 16

Slave trade

Answer 16

When people would sell African people to people in North America for unpaid labour

Question 17

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 17

Divided and newly discovered land outside Europe divided between spain and Portugal

Question 18

New world

Answer 18

When Christopher Columbus discovered America he called it the new world because it was a large amount of land that everyone believed wasn’t there

Question 19

Mutiny

Answer 19

Refuse to obey a persons authority

Question 20

Name three things that the new world got from Europe

Answer 20

Tea, horses and cows

Question 21

Name three things that Europe got from the new world

Answer 21

Parrots, chocolate and pineapples