Vocab

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

Spanish for “conqueror”

Question 2

Incumbent

Answer 2

Resting as a duty on

Question 3

Arson

Answer 3

Setting property on fire purposefully

Question 4

Omen

Answer 4

Sign of what is to happen

Question 5

To revere

Answer 5

To honour and respect

Question 6

Edifice

Answer 6

Building

Question 7

Pilot

Answer 7

Someone who knows local waters and can guide ships

Question 8

Manoeuvrable

Answer 8

Easy to handle

Question 9

Lateen sails

Answer 9

Triangular sail on a short mast

Question 10

Knot

Answer 10

A measurement of a ship’s speed; 1852 metres per hour

Question 11

Hold

Answer 11

The interior of a ship below the lower deck

Question 12

Lodestone

Answer 12

A naturally magnetic stone, also known as magnetite, used as a compass

Question 13

Watch

Answer 13

Shift

Question 14

Scurvy

Answer 14

A potentially fatal lack of vitamin C

Question 15

Mutiny

Answer 15

An open rebellion of sailors against their Officers

Question 16

Strait

Answer 16

A passage way between two land masses

Question 17

Circumnavigate

Answer 17

The world- travel around the whole world

Question 18

To chart

Answer 18

To make a map of

Question 19

Isthmus

Answer 19

A narrow strip of land with water on either side, joining two larger areas of land

Question 20

Small pox

Answer 20

A fatal disease -symptoms

Question 21

Immunity

Answer 21

Natural resistance

Question 22

Chronicle

Answer 22

A continuous account of historical events

Question 23

Eyewitness

Answer 23

Someone who sees something first hand

Question 24

Hieroglyphics

Answer 24

Writing in which pictures represent words

Question 25

Decimation

Answer 25

Literally, one in ten, but usually refers to the destruction of many

Question 26

Letters patent

Answer 26

An official document giving a person authority to do something

Question 27

Spanish Main

Answer 27

Coastal waters of northern South America where Spanish merchant ships regularly travelled