Second Year Chapter 1

Question 1

Name 2 fears the Europeans had about travelling across the waters

Answer 1

1) that there were monsters in the see

2) that they would sail off the edge of the earth

Question 2

What disease did the sailors and crew members get and why

Answer 2

Scurvy as they didn’t get enough to vit C as fresh fruit could not be kept on the ships

Question 3

Who did the Europeans do ancient trade with

Answer 3

India China and the spice islands

Question 4

What are the spice island

Answer 4

A group of islands at the bottom of Indonesia

Question 5

What were the two most famous commodities

Answer 5

Silk

Spices

Question 6

What was the best route to East

Answer 6

Via the “Great Silk Road”

Question 7

Why did the “Great Silk Road” become dangerous

Answer 7

Because of the growth of the Turkish empire

Question 8

Who were enemies

Answer 8

The Muslim Turks and the Christian Europeans

Question 9

When were all Europeans Christians

Answer 9

In the 15th/16th centuries

Question 10

What are heathens

Answer 10

People who believe in false gods

Question 11

Who believed othe religions were heathens

Answer 11

The Christians

Question 12

Why did ships carry priests

Answer 12

To look after the sailors and to spread Christianity to new lands

Question 13

In what years was the new caravel built

Answer 13

In the 15th century

Question 14

What were the new sails and what did they do

Answer 14

They were called lateen sails and they were triangular so they could go through bays and harbours

Question 15

When did European sailors start exploring and travelling across the oceans to find new worlds

Answer 15

The mid 1400’s

Question 16

What stronger boats were built and why

Answer 16

Clinker builts for stronger waves

Question 17

How were clinker builts mad differently

Answer 17

They had over lapping planks of wood

Question 18

What two boats were combined to make the caravel

Answer 18

The Mediterranean and Atlantic designs

Question 19

How did sailors know what directing they were sailing

Answer 19

By using a compass

Question 20

What did a quadrant and and astrolabes

Answer 20

They measured the latitude (distance from equator)

Question 21

What was the difference between an astrolabe and quadrants

Answer 21

Astrolabes measured the latitude by seeing the distance from the sun
Quadrants measures the latitude by measuring the distance from the stars

Question 22

What were Portolan charts used for and when were they made

Answer 22

They were early navigation maps and the fourteenth century

Question 23

How was speed and distance measured

Answer 23

Log lines and knots

Question 24

How did log lines and knots work

Answer 24

A rope with a plot tied to it and thrown over the ship the rope had knots tied to it the sailor then counted how many knots were left

Question 25

What prince of Portugal realised that he could get lots of money by reaching the bottom of Africa

Answer 25

Henry in the fifthteenth century

Question 26

Why did prince Henry of Portugal think that getting to the bottom of Africa could make him rich

Answer 26

He believed it would lead them to lots of spices and his merchants wouldn't risk travelling across the Great Silk Road

Question 27

What name did price Henry of Portugal get and why

Answer 27

The navigator as h made schools for the sailors

Question 28

Who and when was the first to discover the great Cape

Answer 28

Bartolomeu Dias in 1487

Question 29

What happened to his ship when he arrived and what did he name the land and what did it later change to

Answer 29

It was destroyed my storms and it was called the Cape of Storms but the Portuguese king later changed it to the Cape of good hope

Question 30

What was the treaty of tordesillas

Answer 30

It was when Spain and Portugal decided to draw a line on the map and all counties north to the line belonged to Spain and all countries left to the line believed to Portugal and it went down South America

Question 31

When they found the Cape of good hope what did it lead to

Answer 31

It made paths to India

Question 32

Who and when first arrived in India

Answer 32

Vasco de gama in 1498

Question 33

Why was the result of de gama finding India

Answer 33

It became a very rich country and it built a great empire

Question 34

When was America founded

Answer 34

In 1492

Question 35

On September 8th what happened?

Answer 35

18 staggered men arrived in the port of Seville in a battered ship called Victoria

Question 36

Who led everyone to America

Answer 36

Ferdinand magalellen

Question 37

What sis Magellan plan to do

Answer 37

Travel all the way around the world

Question 38

Who supported Magellan and what did they give him

Answer 38

Charles V of Spain He gave them 5 ships The Trinidad the conception Victoria Santiago and San Antonio

Question 39

When did Magellan leave and when did he return

Answer 39

He left on August 10th 1519 and returned sept 8 1522

Question 40

Where did he first go by and what happened

Answer 40

He first went down by the bottom of Argentina and then around by the land of fire where Santiago was wrecked in a storm

Question 41

Wh replaced Magellan when he died in the philepeans

Answer 41

Sebastian del cano

Question 42

What ship broke down after Santiago and why

Answer 42

Conception and because their were not a ought men to captain 3 ships

Question 43

What happened to the Trinidad

Answer 43

Portuguese captured it

Question 44

Who kept a diary of the voyage

Answer 44

Antonio pig feta

Question 45

Name 4 places that Columbus tried to conquest for Spain on his side of the treaty of tordesillas

Answer 45

Aztecs empire Mexico Peru (inca)