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Worksheets1st Year Easter Assessment - Renaissance & Colonisation
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
What does conquest mean?
A state containing several countries
Capture or taking of something by force
An effect, result or force
Settling among and establishing control over native people
Define genocide.
Large Spanish estates
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City
Deliberate extermination of a group of people
A state containing several countries
What is an empire?
Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources
Settling among and establishing control over native people
A state containing several countries
Deliberate extermination of a group of people
What does colonisation mean?
Settling among and establishing control over native people
Used to steer a ship
A state containing several countries
An instrument for determining direction
Define the word impact.
A state containing several countries
Europe, Asia, and Africa
A Spanish conqueror
An effect, result or force
Explain what an exploration is.
Capture or taking of something by force
Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources/lands
A state containing several countries
Settling among and establishing control over native people
Which answer best describes a caravel.
A small, easily steerable ship
Used to steer a ship
Triangular sail
A large ship developed for longer journeys
What is the purpose of a rudder?
Triangular sail
Used to steer a ship
Distance north or south of the equator
An instrument for determining direction
What is a lateen?
Triangular sail
Instrument used to determine latitude
Sea journey taken by slaves from Africa to the 'New World'
A Spanish conqueror
What is a carrack?
Instrument used to determine latitude
A state containing several countries
A small, easily steerable ship
A large ship developed for longer journeys.
What is a compass used for?
Instrument used to determine latitude
Measuring distance north or south of the equator
An instrument for determining direction
Used to steer a ship
What is latitude?
Distance north or south of the equator
An instrument for determining direction
Capture or taking of something by force
An effect, result or force
What is an astrolabe used for?
Instrument used to determine latitude
An instrument for determining direction
Navigation school
System in which conquistadors forced natives to work
What is meant by the New World?
First European to sail around Africa to India
North and South America lands were Explorers traveled to.
Europe, Asia, and Africa
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City
What is meant by the Old World?
Europe, Asia, and Africa
Distance north or south of the equator
North and South America
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City
Why is Henry the Navigator significant?
First European to reach the southern tip of Africa
Italian explorer who landed in the Americas
Claimed Brazil for Portugal
Claimed Brazil for Portugal
Started a navigation school in Portugal
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Italian explorer who landed in the Americas
A Spanish conqueror
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Why is Vasco da Gama significant?
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
Claimed Brazil for Portugal
First European to sail around Africa to India
First European to sail around India to Australia
What did Pedro Cabral do?
Claimed Brazil for Portugal
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Started a navigation school
First European to sail around Africa to India
How did explorers in this period measure the speed they were moving on ships?
Sails
Log and line
Rudder
Compass
What is a conquistador?
Distance north or south of the equator
A Spanish conqueror
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City
A state containing several countries
Who were the Aztecs?
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City conquered by Cortes
First European to sail around Africa to India
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
Ancient civilization located in Peru
Who were the Incas?
Large Spanish estates usually owned by wealthy families
Ancient civilization located in present-day Mexico City
Ancient civilization located in Peru captured by Pizarro
System that forced natives to do work for conquistadors
Ancient civilization located in Peru
The Spanish landowners in the New World used encomienda. What is this?
Instrument used to determine latitude
Large Spanish estates usually owned by wealthy families
Instrument used to determine latitude
System that forced natives to do work for conquistadors
What was the slave trade?
The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people
Sea journey taken by slave ships
Large Spanish estates usually owned by wealthy families
Europe, Asia, and Africa
What was the Renaissance?
Style of Medieval architecture
Style of architecture heavily influenced by Greece and Rome
To make or become different
Rebirth of classical learning
What is perspective?
Triangular section of a temple roof
A person who buys and sells goods
Technique used to give paintings a 3-dimensional effect
Objects, regardless of weight, will fall at the same speed
Explain what vernacular refers to.
Study of the universe
Painting done on wet plaster
Everyday language of ordinary people
A round, curved roof e.g. the dome of Florence Cathedral
What is a patron?
Financial supporter of the arts e.g. Lorenzo de Medici
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist
Female artist of the Renaissance
Michelangelo's most famous sculpture.
What is humanism?
Inventor of the printing press
Philosophy that celebrates human cultural achievements. Focus on life on earth rather than the after life.
Painting completed by da Vinci in a refectory in Milian
Objects, regardless of weight, will fall at the same speed
What is astronomy?
A person who buys and sells goods
Study of the universe
Paint made from egg yolk and colour pigments
The study of body structure
In Renaissance architecture what is a dome?
A circular stained-glass window
A round, curved roof e.g. the dome of Florence Cathedral
French barber surgeon and trauma surgeon
Triangular section of a temple roof,decorated with sculpture
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Painter responsible for the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Female artist from the Renaissance
Renaissance Man. Painter of the Mona Lisa
Astronomer.Showed planets revolve around sun in ovals orbits
What is the Pieta?
Painting completed by da Vinci in a refectory in Milan
Michelangelo's most famous sculpture. Depicts a boy hero
Paintings depicting scenes from the Old Testament
Sculpture of Mary mourning over the body of Christ by Michelangelo
What was Johannes Gutenberg famous for?
Renaissance Man
Trauma surgeon
Sculptor
Inventor of the printing press
