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age of exploration
Question | Answer |
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monarchs: | a royal Leader Of a country Example King or queen |
cartographers | People who draw and produce maps |
portolan | Maps of the coastline designed to help sailors find safe harbours |
quadrants and astrolabes | Instrument measuring the height of the sun or the north star above the horizon |
longitude | the distance ( east or west ) Something is from a fixed geographical point |
knot | The unit used to measure the speed of a ship |
fathom | The unit used to measure the depth of the water |
logbook | a daily diary kept by the captain of the ship telling the journey of the ship |
clinker-built | a method of shipbuilding which used overlapping wooden board on the side of the ship to provide strength |
lateens | Triangular sails used On the ships to increase manoeuvrability |
caraval | a type of ship used originally for the Portuguese. It was clinker built but it used both square and triangle sails. |
carrack/ naos | a larger type of caravell that was developed to be used for storage |
typhoid | a disease associated with dirty water |
scurvy | a disease associated with the lack of vitamins C in the diet |
padroas | Large stone pillars that are placed along the coast to match the furthest distance travelled by explorers down the African coast |
colonies | Foreign lands that a country claims to own |
treaty of tordesillas | An agreement made in 1494 Between the Portuguese and Spanish dividing up the new world So as to avoid conflict. Spain took all new lands found west of this line and Portugal all lands east. |
circumnavigation | To fly, Sale or walk around something; to sail around the world |
conquistadores | a Spanish word meaning conquerors; The explorers who conquered large areas of Central and South America |