Early Exploration
Sailors were mostly afraid of what two things?
Monsters and falling off the edge of the world.
People who drew maps were known as what?
Cartographers.
Which two diseases were most common aboard ships?
Typhoid and scurvy
What was the name of the Aztec capital?
Tenochtitlan
The act of travelling completely around the world is called what?
Circumnavigation.
What did Christian explorers hope to do to people in new lands? (apart from murder them)
Convert them to Christianity.
What was the name given to the maps that mapped out harbours and coastlines?
Portolan Charts.
Sailors rebelling against their captains was called what?
Mutiny
What is the Spanish word for conquerers?
Conquistadores.
What was the main cause of death to the indigenous populations?
Disease
Name three of the most prevalent countries that sponsored voyages.
Spain, Portugal, England, France
Which two instruments helped determine a ship's latitude?
Astrolabe and Quadrant.
In 1487 Bartolomeu Dias rounded what?
The Cape of Good Hope
Who was Montezuma?
The Aztec King
While many indigenous people continued practising their faith in secret. What custom did they stop practising?
Human sacrifice.
What was the main overland trade route at the time?
The Great Silk Road.
What was the name given to the new style of ships and what two advancements made them stand out?
Caravel, their hulls and lateen sails.
Who sailed up the African coast towards India in 1497?
Vasco da Gama
After fleeing, how many men did Cortes return with?
100,000
What treaty divided the new world between Spain and Portugal
The treaty of Tordesillas.
Which famous Italian traveller had been to China and documented its riches?
Marco Polo
What is the difference between a log and line and a line and lead?
Log and line measures ships speed.
Line and lead measures water depth.
The school of navigation in Sagres was set up by who?
Prince Henry the navigator.
Hernan Cortes landed initially with how many ships, soldiers and horses.
11 ships, 500 soldiers, 13 horses
Trade between Europe and the Americas of food, animals and technologies was called what?
Columbian Exchange