Exploration

Question 0

Bartholemew Diaz

Answer 0

-rounded the Cape of Good Hope, but was forced to turn back due to storms and a threatened mutiny

Question 1

Prince Henry

Answer 1

• was prince of Portugal
• was called “The Navigator”
• established a school for the study of geography and navigation
• sent annual expiditions down the coat of Africa for gold, reaching as far as Guinea

Question 2

Vasco da Gama

Answer 2

• was Portuguese

* reached India and returned to Lisbon with spices and cloth

Question 3

Pedro Alvares Cabral

Answer 3

• was Portuguese
• was dispatched by King Manuel with thirteen ships and the help of Diaz to set up trading posts in India
• saw the coast of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal
• returned with six ships filled with spices

Question 4

Marco Polo

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• was Venitian
• visited the court of the Chinese emporer
• wrote /Travels/, an account of his travels that stimulated the trade in spices between Asia and Italy

Question 5

Hernando Cortes

Answer 5

• was Spanish
• led expidition to Mexico
• conquered Tenochtitlan and brought about the downfall of the Aztecs

Question 6

Ferdinand Magellen

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• was Spanish
• commisioned by Charles V to find a direct route to the Moluccas, off the southeast coast of Asia
• sailed west and found the Western Isles, some of which were later conquered and renamed “Philippines”
• was killed in the middle of the expidition, which continued and returned to Spain, proving the earth to be larger than Columbus’s estimates.

Question 7

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 7

• was Spanish

* conquered Peru, crushed the Inca Empire, and established Spanish viceroyality

Question 8

Michel da Montaigne

Answer 8

• was French
• grew up during religious wars
• was one of the first skeptics
• wrote about the innocence and purity of native peoples before they were corrupted by the Europeans