Age Of Exploration Flashcards
Sponsorship
Where important people payed for explorations to the spice islands to profit off the goods.
El dorado
A mythical city with streets paved with gold.
Clinker built
Overlapping planks of wood to strengthen a ships hull.
Lateen sails
Efficient, triangular sails.
Astrolabe
Measured latitude
Quadrant
An improved astrolabe-like design
Compass
Showed heading relative to the north.
Log and line
A primitive method of measuring speed by counting the amount of knots on the line gone out per minute.
Scurvy
A disease caused by a lack of vitamin c. Cured by fruit.
Captain
Head of the ship
Bart Diaz
Explored the coast of Africa for Portugal
Vasco de gama
Made it to the spice islands by going around Africa.
Columbus
An Italian explorer who discovered America for the Europeans
New world
Name given to regions newly explored by Europe.
Spice islands
An area in Asia where expensive spices were plentiful.
