Chapter 13

Question 1

The five countries that took an interest in exploration

Answer 1

1. Portugal
2. Spain
3. France
4. England
5. Dutch

Question 2

What term applies to the journey of the slaves from Africa to Americas?

Answer 2

Middle Pasage

Question 3

What is an area in which a foreign country gains total control over a region and its population?

Answer 3

colonies

Question 4

Who started a school of navigation to train sailors in Portugal?

Answer 4

Prince Henry

Question 5

What continent was the greatest source of slaves for the slave trade of the 15th century?

Answer 5

Africa

Question 6

What was the mark that divided the unexplored world between Spain and Portugal?

Answer 6

Line of Demarcation

Question 7

What are the 3 reasons for exploration?

Answer 7

1. Glory
2. God
3. Gold

Question 8

What is the Spanish term for conqueror?

Answer 8

conquistador

Question 9

What was a business organized by selling stock or shares in a company?

Answer 9

joint stock company

Question 10

What two countries took the lead in exploration?

Answer 10

1. Portugal

2. Spain

Question 11

What is the extensive exchange of plants and animals between the New World and Old World?

Answer 11

Colombian Exchange

Question 12

What is the economic theory state that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and in order to receive a large share of the wealth one country must take it away from another?

Answer 12

mercantilism

Question 13

What are large agricultural estates?

Answer 13

plantations

Question 14

What was the book written by Marco Polo about his experiences in the east?

Answer 14

The Travels

Question 15

What was the treaty that was signed by Spain and Portugal to divide the world?

Answer 15

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 16

What is the idea of using Native Americans as laborers in the Spanish Empire?

Answer 16

encomienda

Question 17

What term applies to selling more goods than a country bring in or importing less than they export?

Answer 17

Balance of Trade

Question 18

What is the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the American continents?

Answer 18

Triangular Trade

Question 19

What term applies to the part of the continent of Asia as distinguished from the peninsula and the island, and consists of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia?

Answer 19

mainland states

Question 20

Who was responsible for Portugal making great gains in early exploration and establishing a trading empire?

Answer 20

Prince Henry

Question 21

Who made four voyages to the New World for Spain and his discovery led to Spanish colonization?

Answer 21

Christopher Columbus

Question 22

Who went looking for the Fountain of Youth and explored the area of Florida?

Answer 22

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 23

Who sailed for Portugal and sailed to the Cape of Good Hope and cut across the Indian Ocean and arrived at Calicut?

Answer 23

Vasco de Gama

Question 24

Who was the ruler of the Congo who tried to convince the Portuguese to stop slave trade?

Answer 24

King Alfonso

Question 25

Who founded Brazil for the Portuguese?

Answer 25

Cabral

Question 26

Who started the first French settlement of Quebec?

Answer 26

Champlain

Question 27

Who laid the first claim for the English in the New World by exploring the New England coast of America?

Answer 27

John Cabot

Question 28

Who conquered the Incas?

Answer 28

Pizarro

Question 29

What Spanish explorer when looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola and found the Grand Canyon?

Answer 29

Coronado

Question 30

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

Answer 30

Magellan

Question 31

Who explored the American southeast for the Spanish?

Answer 31

Hernado de Soto

Question 32

Who conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 32

Cortes

Question 33

Who was the member of Magellan's crew that completed the voyage?

Answer 33

Cano

Question 34

Who ailed up the St. Lawrence River and explored the area of Eastern Canada for the French?

Answer 34

Cartier

Question 35

Who explored and claimed California for the Spanish?

Answer 35

Cabrillo

Question 36

Who explored for both the English and the Dutch?

Answer 36

Henry Hudson

Question 37

Who financed the Columbus voyage?

Answer 37

Queen Isabella

Question 38

Whose early travels to the East to the court of Kublai Khan sparked an interest in exploration?

Answer 38

Marco Polo

Question 39

Who was the first Portuguese to sail to the tip of Africa and named the Cape of Good Hope?

Answer 39

Bartholomeu Dias

Question 40

Who set up a port in Goa and helped Portugal to gain control of the spice trade between Asia and Europe?

Answer 40

Admiral Albuquerque

Question 41

Who was the Italian mapmaker who sent along on some voyages and wrote letters and drew maps of the New World?

Answer 41

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 42

Who laid the French claim in the New World when he explored the eastern coast of North America?

Answer 42

Verrazano

Question 43

Who was the Spainard that explored in the Caribbean area and found the Great South Sea?

Answer 43

Balboa

Question 44

Who explored the Great Lakes and claimed that area of the Mississippi River for the French?

Answer 44

La Salle

Question 45

What was the name of the Dutch settlement in the New World?

Answer 45

New Netherlands

Question 46

What were the two parts of the Spanish empire in the New World?

Answer 46

1. New Spain | 2. Peru

Question 47

What are the three parts of the Portuguese Empire?

Answer 47

1. East 2. New World 3. Africa

Question 48

What was the main crop of early plantations?

Answer 48

sugar cane

Question 49

What country created the largest empire in the New World?

Answer 49

Spain

Question 50

What were the two areas in Africa where Europeans were able to make permanent settlements?

Answer 50

1. South Africa | 2. Mozambique

Question 51

What were the four changes that led to exploration?

Answer 51

1. technology 2. political change 3. economic change 4. social change

Question 52

What were the five reasons why people moved to the colonies?

Answer 52

1. better opportunities 2. religious freedoms 3. hardship in Europe 4. spread Christianity 5. adventure

Question 53

What are the three important parts of the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 53

1. introduction of horse to America 2. exchange of crops 3. introduction of European diseases to Native Americans

Question 54

Why did the Spanish Empire flourish?

Answer 54

1. well organized 2. importance of Spain in Europe 3. controlled Natives

Question 55

What were effects of slave trade?

Answer 55

1. depopulated areas of Africa 2. took young and strongest men 3. corrupted African cultures