WorksheetsImpact of Conquest and Colonisation
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
Name the Portuguese explorer who travelled to India to trade.
Bartholomew Diaz
Ferdinand Magellan
Marco Polo
Vasco da Gama
Name the King and Queen of Spain who paid for Columbus to cross the Atlantic.
Ferdinand and Isabella
Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
Charles and Diana
Philip and Elizabeth
Name Christopher Columbus' three ships.
The Carolina, the Nina and the Lucia
The Maria, the Isabella and the Christina
The Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pinta
The Isabella, the Ferdinand and the Pinta
Name the Spanish Conquistador who destroyed the Aztec empire.
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortés
Harry Styles
Henry the Navigator
What is the English word for "Conquistador"?
Spaniard
Sailor
Carpenter
Conqueror
Which two countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Spain and Portugal
Spain and Mexico
Portugal and Brazil
Spain and England
Name the Spanish Conquistador who destroyed the Incan empire in Peru.
Rafael Nadal
Hernan Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Bartholomew Diaz
Who was the Aztec Emperor who met with Hernan Cortés?
Francisco Pizarro
Montezuma
Tenochtitlan
Atahaulpa
Name the Incan emperor killed by Franciso Pizarro.
Los Angeles
Hernan Cortés
Atahualpa
Montezuma
Name the city Conquistadors built on top of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.
Lima
Panama City
Mexico City
Havana
The trade of goods, plants, culture and people across the Atlantic after 1492 became known as the...
Bermuda Triangle
Triangular Slave Route
Columbian Exchange
Columbus Route
The Indigenous population of the Americas and their languages dying out,
Cotton and Tobacco plantations being developed,
Spain and Portugal becoming wealthy,
the spread of Christianity are all...
...Causes of the Conquest and Colonisation of the Americas
...Consequences of the Conquest and Colonisation of the Americas
