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15 Cards in this Set
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Empire |
a city or town ruled over by a emperor |
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Colony |
a country or region ruled over by another country |
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Lateen Sails |
triangular shaped sails that allow ships to sail against the wind |
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Compass |
a navigational tool which gives the direction of North |
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Treaty Of Tordesillas |
An agreement made so that the New world was divided between Spain and portugal |
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Portolan Charts |
early navigational maps of the sea |
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Caravel |
a ship that is clinker built and has lateen sails |
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Clinker Built |
a technique of building ships which involved overlapping planks of wood so the ships would be strong against the atlantic waves |
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Inca |
Native empire in Peru,conquered by Pizarro |
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Log and Line |
a way of calculating the speed of a ship by counting the knots |
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Conquistador |
Spanish word for soldier. Referring to those who conquered the new world for Spain. |
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Quadrant |
A way of calculating latitute by looking at the position of the north star in the sky |
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Aztec |
Native empire in Mexico,conquered by Cortes |
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Latitude |
distance from the equator |
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Astrolobe |
A way of calculating latitude by looking at the position of the sun in the sky |
