Chapter 1

Question 1

Marco Polo

Answer 1

Italian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China.

Question 2

Caravel

Answer 2

Swift Portugese ship with 2-3 triangular sails

Question 3

Merchantilism

Answer 3

• Economic system designed to enhance the wealth and power of a nation
• Wealth determined by precious metals ie. gold and silver

Question 4

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 4

• Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa

- Cape of Good Hope

Question 5

Vasco da Gama

Answer 5

Portuguese explorer who reached India by sailing around the tip of Africa.

Question 6

Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

Italian-born (Portuguese) explorer who thought he had discovered Asia but discovered the Americas instead
called the people “Indians”

Question 7

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 7

Sailed to West Indies and South America

Question 8

John Cabot

Answer 8

English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage

Question 9

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 9

Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.

Question 10

Circumnavigate

Answer 10

to sail completely around the world

Question 11

Martin Luther

Answer 11

Founder of Protestantism

Question 12

Protestant Reformation

Answer 12

Movement that pressed for changes in the Roman Catholic Church and society

Question 13

John Calvin

Answer 13

Geneva’s (Switzerland) most influential teacher

reorganized the educational systems

Question 14

Bering Strait

Answer 14

waterway between Asia and North America thought to be the passage that brought the ancestors of the American Indians to the Western Hemisphere

Question 15

Pueblo Indians

Answer 15

• 1st group of Indians the Spanish encountered

- Grew corn mainly

Question 16

Mound Builders

Answer 16

native american civilizations of the eastern region of north america that created distinctive earthen works that served as elaborate burial places

Question 17

Eastern Woodland Indians

Answer 17

The group of Indian tribes that occupied the whole East Coast of North America.

Question 18

Hernando Cortes

Answer 18

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

Question 19

Conquistador

Answer 19

Spanish conqueror

Question 20

Montezuma

Answer 20

Aztec emperor

Question 21

Francsico de Coronado

Answer 21

Looked for the Seven Cities of Gold but found the Grand Canyon instead

Question 22

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer 22

Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the “Fountain of Youth”

Question 23

St. Augustine

Answer 23

1st colony in Florida set up by Spain

Question 24

Hernando de Soto

Answer 24

Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain

Question 25

Philip II

Answer 25

Spanish Catholic king who crushed Protestantism

Question 26

Sir Fancis Drake

Answer 26

- Sea Dog | - Defeated the Spanish Armada

Question 27

Elizabeth I

Answer 27

English Queen and politique who united Protestants and Catholics through compromise

Question 28

Sea Dogs

Answer 28

English pirates

Question 29

Spanish Armada

Answer 29

The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 defeated by Sir Francis Drake

Question 30

Walter Raleigh

Answer 30

Landed in Virginia and settled on Roanoke Island

Question 31

Roanoke Island

Answer 31

Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580s

Question 32

Lost Colony

Answer 32

Roanoke Island

Question 33

New France

Answer 33

Canada

Question 34

Henry Hudson

Answer 34

discovered and claimed New Netherlands for the Dutch

Question 35

New Netherland

Answer 35

New York

Question 36

What European nation discovered a sea route to Asia?

Answer 36

Portugal

Question 37

What movement in the 1500s was caused by Europe's rediscovery of the Biblical truth?

Answer 37

Protestant Reformation

Question 38

What merchants controlled the overland routes to Asia threatening safety and leading to Europeans looking for another way to the East?

Answer 38

Muslim

Question 39

What monarch sponsored Columbus' first expedition?

Answer 39

Isabella

Question 40

The most significant fact about John Cabot's voyages was that he

Answer 40

Claimed land in North America for England

Question 41

Magellan

Answer 41

was killed in the Philippines

Question 42

How did the Protestant Reformation encourage settlement of the New World?

Answer 42

Protestants went to the New World to escape from persecution

Question 43

During the 16th century, which country dominated exploration of the New World?

Answer 43

Spain

Question 44

The Aztecs were a highly civilized Indian culture in

Answer 44

Mexico

Question 45

The Indian population in the New World dropped from 50M to 4M in about one century primarily because of

Answer 45

Diseases brought by Europeans

Question 46

In 1493 Pope Alexander VI divided the world for purposes of settlement and exploration between Portugal and

Answer 46

Spain

Question 47

The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not bring an end to

Answer 47

The power of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 48

What was the dividing line Pope Alexander VI drew up to separate the exploration of the world between Spain and Portugal?

Answer 48

Line of Demarcation

Question 49

What early Native American tribe lived in caves along the rims and ledges of canyons of the southwest United States?

Answer 49

Pueblo Indians

Question 50

What did the French call their colony in Canada?

Answer 50

New France

Question 51

What important river did Hernando de Soto discover?

Answer 51

Mississippi River

Question 52

Spanish settlers in the New World practiced what religion?

Answer 52

Roman Catholicism

Question 53

For whom was the New World named?

Answer 53

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 54

The famous work Description of the World was about whose adventures?

Answer 54

Marco Polo

Question 55

What title was given to the daring Spanish soldiers/explorers?

Answer 55

Conquistadors