The Age Of Exploration

Question 1

Straits

Answer 1

Narrow passage between two land masses

Question 2

Mutiny

Answer 2

Crew disobey the captain and plan to take over the ship

Question 3

Circumnavigate

Answer 3

To sail around the world

Question 4

Pacific

Answer 4

Peaceful

Question 5

Log

Answer 5

Record taken of the voyage by the captain

Question 6

Plantation

Answer 6

Large farms where slaves grew crops

Question 7

Colony

Answer 7

Country controlled by another more powerful country

Question 8

Smallpox

Answer 8

Common disease that the natives were not immune to

Question 9

The new world

Answer 9

Name given to new land discovered by Columbus. Modern day North America and South America.

Question 10

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 10

Divided the unknown world between Spain and Portugal.

Question 11

Slave Trade

Answer 11

Indians and Africans were forced to mine for gold and silver.

Question 12

Caravel

Answer 12

A smaller, faster ship with triangular lateen sails.

Question 13

Log and line

Answer 13

To measure speed

Question 14

Astrolabe

Answer 14

To calculate latitude

Question 15

Scurvy

Answer 15

A disease caused by lack of vitamin c

Question 16

Clinker Built hulls

Answer 16

Protected ships in storms

Question 17

Latitude

Answer 17

North or South of the equator

Question 18

Portalan charts

Answer 18

Maps of the coastline

Question 19

Colony

Answer 19

A country that is owned by another more powerful country

Question 20

Plantation

Answer 20

Large farms where slaves grew crops such as tobacco