The Age of Exploration
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| Great Silk Road | The main route to the East
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| Empire | A group of nations ruled over by another country
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| Colony | A country or region that is ruled by another country
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| Caravel | A ship that is clinker built and has lateen sails
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| Clinker built | Overlapping planks of wood which strengthens the ships against the Atlantic waves
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| Lateen sails | Triangular sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind
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| Compass | An instrument which gives direction
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| Portolan Charts | Maps which recorded information such as the shape of coastlines and the depth of water at particular places
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| Log and line | Used to calculate the speed of a ship by counting knots
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| Lead and line | Used to calculate the depth of water
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| Astrolabe | Measured latitude by studying the position of the sun
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| Quadrant | Measured latitude by studying the position of the stars
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| Prince Henry the Navigator | The Portuguese Prince who set up a school for sailers in Sagres
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| Bartolomeu Diaz | Sailed around the tip of Africa 'Cape of Good Hope'
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| Vasco Da Gama | Reached India by sailing around Africa
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| Treaty of Tordesillas | An agreement that divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal
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| Ferdinand Magellan | Circumnavigated the globe
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| Hernando Cortes | Conquered the Aztec empire
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| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Inca empire
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| Conquistador | Spanish word for 'soldier' referring to those who conquered the 'New World' for Spain
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| Slavery Triangle | the trade triangle whereby ships delivered African slaves to the Americas, American goods to Europe, then sailed back to Africa to repeat the process
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