Key Words

Question 1

Exploration

Answer 1

Travelling around, inspecting what a place is like

Question 2

Age of Exploration

Answer 2

Between the 15th and 17th centuary Europeans began to explore the world in search of new trade routes, territories, wealth and increased knowledge

Question 3

Navigation

Answer 3

The skill or process of plotting a route and directing a ship, aircraft, etc, along it

Question 4

Scurvy:

Answer 4

The lack of fresh fruit vegetables which contained vitamin c, often led to scurvy. Scurvy could cause gums to bleed, teeth to fall out and skin to pale.

Question 5

Voyage:

Answer 5

A voyage is a long journey on a ship.

Question 6

Conquest

Answer 6

This is the act of defeating a country or group of people

Question 7

Colonisation

Answer 7

If people colonise a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.

Question 8

Empire

Answer 8

An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country