Impact of Conquest and Colonisation

What is the period in the 15th and 16th Centuries when Europeans began to travel around the globe known as?

• The Ice Age

• The Age of Exploration and Discovery

• The Age of Iron

• The Neolithic Age

Name the new type of ship invented in the 15th Century.

• The Caramel

• The Hiace Van

• The Caravan

• The Caravel

Name two other types of ships which could cross the Atlantic ocean in the 15th Century.

• The Carrack and the Nao

• The Carrot and the Stick

• The Carol and the Nose

• The Santa Maria and the Pinta

How does a compass help with navigation?

• It helps you to draw a perfect circle.

• It connects to a satellite in space.

• It tells sailors which direction they are travelling in.

• It sends an alarm when they are going in the wrong direction.

Which of these inventions helped sailors to find the degree of latitude and longitude?

• Rudder

• Astrolabes, quadrants and cross-staffs and chronometers.

• Asteroids, quails, crossroads and chronology.

• Compass

What were the earliest maps sailors drew called?

• Portacabin charts

• Here be Dragons

• Pizza biscuits

• Portolan charts

When travelling at sea, what did log and line and sand-glasses measure?

• Weight

• Speed

• Distance

• Latitude

How is the speed of a boat measured?

• in miles per hour

• in shoelaces

• in knots

• in ribbons

Name the Portuguese Prince who led their explorations to Africa, Asia and the Spice Islands.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand

• Henry the Navigator

• Henry VIII

Name the Portuguese explorer who was the first European to travel around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa.

• Bartholomew Diaz

• Cameron Diaz

• Marco Polo

• Vasco da Gama