Chapter 19:1 And Chapter 20:1

Question 1

When did the age of exploration start?

Answer 1

The 1400’s

Question 2

What road did the traders have to travel on to get to Asia for spices?

Answer 2

Silk

Question 3

Who started a school a navigation? Made Astrolabe and the caravel ship with triangular sails?

Answer 3

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 4

What is a caravel?

Answer 4

A large ship

Question 5

Who made it to the cape of good hope in 1488 from Portugal?

Answer 5

Bartholomew Dias

Question 6

Who sailed around Africa and then continued to India in 1497?

Answer 6

Vasco Da Gama

Question 7

Who took the lead in exploration?

Answer 7

Spain

Question 8

What Italian explorer who sailed for Spain reached Hispaniola in 1492 after three months of sailing?

Answer 8

Christopher Columbus

Question 9

Columbus believed he reached Asia, but he didn’t. Where did he reach and what country did he claim it for?

Answer 9

North America. Spain

Question 10

Who Opened a navigational school and son of Portugal king?

Answer 10

Prince Henry

Question 11

This Portuguese captain made it to the tip of Africa and then returned home because of food supply. Who was it?

Answer 11

Bartolomeu Dias

Question 12

He reached the port of Calicut, India in 1498. Who was it?

Answer 12

Vasco Da Gama

Question 13

What company was founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade through Asia?

Answer 13

Dutch East India Company

Question 14

Who discovered North America in 1492?

Answer 14

Christopher Columbus

Question 15

What is a land controlled by another nation called?

Answer 15

A colony

Question 16

Who landed of the shores of Mexico in 1519?

Answer 16

Hernando Cortès

Question 17

Who were the Spanish explorers, soldiers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century?

Answer 17

Conquistadors

Question 18

What was used to preserve food from spoiling?

Answer 18

Spices

Question 19

In 1532, who marched a small force into South America and conquered the Incan empire?

Answer 19

Francisco Pizzaro

Question 20

Who landed in modern day Florida and claimed it for Spain? Searching for fountain of youth

Answer 20

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 21

Who was the Incan ruler who pizzaro killed?

Answer 21

Atahualpa

Question 22

What was the grant of land made by Spain to A settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on that land.

Answer 22

Encomienda

Question 23

What was the reconquering of Spain that threw all the Muslims out and made the country completely christian?

Answer 23

Reconquista

Question 23

Who famously circumnavigated and was killed in the Philippines?

Answer 23

MAGELLAN

Question 24

What was the Aztec Capital?

Answer 24

Tenochtitlán

Question 25

Who was Aztec leader?

Answer 25

Montezuma 2

Question 26

Who was Incan Leader?

Answer 26

Atahualpa

Question 27

Where were the Incans located?

Answer 27

Peru

Question 28

Who was a person living in South America who was born in Spain?

Answer 28

Peninsulary

Question 29

What was a European who had a baby with a Native American?

Answer 29

MESTIZO

Question 30

Which country invested in schooling?

Answer 30

Portugal

Question 31

What was it called when native Americans had to give manual labor?

Answer 31

Encomienda Syatem

Question 32

What were conquistadors looking for?

Answer 32

Gold, Spices, and high value trade items

Question 33

Who was America named for? And what nationality was he

Answer 33

Americo Vespucci. Italian

Question 34

What is a cartographer and what nationality was the one who made America?

Answer 34

Map Maker. German