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Second Year Chapter 1 Flashcards

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1
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Name 2 fears the Europeans had about travelling across the waters

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1) that there were monsters in the see

2) that they would sail off the edge of the earth

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2
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What disease did the sailors and crew members get and why

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Scurvy as they didn’t get enough to vit C as fresh fruit could not be kept on the ships

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3
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Who did the Europeans do ancient trade with

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India China and the spice islands

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4
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What are the spice island

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A group of islands at the bottom of Indonesia

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5
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What were the two most famous commodities

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Silk

Spices

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6
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What was the best route to East

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Via the “Great Silk Road”

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7
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Why did the “Great Silk Road” become dangerous

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Because of the growth of the Turkish empire

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8
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Who were enemies

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The Muslim Turks and the Christian Europeans

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9
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When were all Europeans Christians

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In the 15th/16th centuries

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10
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What are heathens

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People who believe in false gods

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11
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Who believed othe religions were heathens

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The Christians

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12
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Why did ships carry priests

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To look after the sailors and to spread Christianity to new lands

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13
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In what years was the new caravel built

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In the 15th century

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14
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What were the new sails and what did they do

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They were called lateen sails and they were triangular so they could go through bays and harbours

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15
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When did European sailors start exploring and travelling across the oceans to find new worlds

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The mid 1400’s

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16
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What stronger boats were built and why

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Clinker builts for stronger waves

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17
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How were clinker builts mad differently

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They had over lapping planks of wood

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18
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What two boats were combined to make the caravel

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The Mediterranean and Atlantic designs

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19
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How did sailors know what directing they were sailing

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By using a compass

20
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What did a quadrant and and astrolabes

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They measured the latitude (distance from equator)

21
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What was the difference between an astrolabe and quadrants

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Astrolabes measured the latitude by seeing the distance from the sun
Quadrants measures the latitude by measuring the distance from the stars

22
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What were Portolan charts used for and when were they made

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They were early navigation maps and the fourteenth century

23
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How was speed and distance measured

A

Log lines and knots

24
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How did log lines and knots work

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A rope with a plot tied to it and thrown over the ship the rope had knots tied to it the sailor then counted how many knots were left

25
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What prince of Portugal realised that he could get lots of money by reaching the bottom of Africa

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Henry in the fifthteenth century

26
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Why did prince Henry of Portugal think that getting to the bottom of Africa could make him rich

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He believed it would lead them to lots of spices and his merchants wouldn’t risk travelling across the Great Silk Road

27
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What name did price Henry of Portugal get and why

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The navigator as h made schools for the sailors

28
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Who and when was the first to discover the great Cape

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Bartolomeu Dias in 1487

29
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What happened to his ship when he arrived and what did he name the land and what did it later change to

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It was destroyed my storms and it was called the Cape of Storms but the Portuguese king later changed it to the Cape of good hope

30
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What was the treaty of tordesillas

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It was when Spain and Portugal decided to draw a line on the map and all counties north to the line belonged to Spain and all countries left to the line believed to Portugal and it went down South America

31
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When they found the Cape of good hope what did it lead to

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It made paths to India

32
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Who and when first arrived in India

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Vasco de gama in 1498

33
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Why was the result of de gama finding India

A

It became a very rich country and it built a great empire

34
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When was America founded

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In 1492

35
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On September 8th what happened?

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18 staggered men arrived in the port of Seville in a battered ship called Victoria

36
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Who led everyone to America

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Ferdinand magalellen

37
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What sis Magellan plan to do

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Travel all the way around the world

38
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Who supported Magellan and what did they give him

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Charles V of Spain
He gave them 5 ships
The Trinidad the conception Victoria Santiago and San Antonio

39
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When did Magellan leave and when did he return

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He left on August 10th 1519 and returned sept 8 1522

40
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Where did he first go by and what happened

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He first went down by the bottom of Argentina and then around by the land of fire where Santiago was wrecked in a storm

41
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Wh replaced Magellan when he died in the philepeans

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Sebastian del cano

42
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What ship broke down after Santiago and why

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Conception and because their were not a ought men to captain 3 ships

43
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What happened to the Trinidad

A

Portuguese captured it

44
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Who kept a diary of the voyage

A

Antonio pig feta

45
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Name 4 places that Columbus tried to conquest for Spain on his side of the treaty of tordesillas

A

Aztecs empire
Mexico
Peru (inca)

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