The Age Of Exploration Flashcards
1
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Caravels
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Small, fast and easy to steer ships
2
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Treaty of tordesillas
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Spain and Portugal decided to divid the new world
3
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Mutiny
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When the crew plan to kill the caption
4
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New world
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What the Europeans called America
5
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Straits
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A narrow passage between two land masses
6
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Circumnavigate
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To travel around the world
7
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Conoly
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A country ruled be a more powerful country
8
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Compass
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Used to calculate distance.
9
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Log
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A record kept of his voyage
10
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Disease was
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A big killer. Captains carried twice the amount of men they needed
11
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Genoa
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The place Columbus was born
12
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The Nina the piñata and the San Maria
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Columbus’s boats
13
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Astrolbe
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Used to find the ships postition north or south of equator
