CHAPTER 2 HISTORY

Question 1

Who was Leif Eriksson?

Answer 1

Viking who landed in present day Canada

Question 2

Who was prince Henry the navigator?

Answer 2

Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions

Question 3

What is a astrolabe?

Answer 3

A device used to determine the location based on the position if the stars

Question 4

What is a caravel?

Answer 4

Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind

Question 5

Who were the first Europeans to make contact with North America?

Answer 5

The Vikings

Question 6

What year did Leif Eriksson set off for Greenland?

Answer 6

1000

Question 7

In what year did Portugal become a leader in world exploration?

Answer 7

The early 1400s

Question 8

Why did the Europeans explore the world?

Answer 8

The wanted spices

Question 9

What was the first sea route from Europe to Asia?

Answer 9

Down the west coast of Africa and around the cape of good hope

Question 10

Who was Vasco Di Gama?

Answer 10

He led an expedition in 1497 around the southern tip of Africa and reached India.

Question 11

What was one positive effect of the Portuguese expeditions?

Answer 11

Portugals wealth and power increased

Question 12

What was one negative effect of the Portuguese expeditions?

Answer 12

They led to the spread of slave trade

Question 13

Christopher Columbus

Answer 13

A sailor from Genoa Italy( Europe)

Question 14

Line of Demarcation

Answer 14

An imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spain and Portugal

Question 15

What were the years of Columbus travels to the new world?

Answer 15

1492 till 1504

Question 16

Why did Spain agree to sponsor Columbus expedition?

Answer 16

They got great things in return

Question 17

Why was the line of Demarcation replaced with the Treaty Of Tordesillas?

Answer 17

The Portueguese prince believed it wasnt enough

Question 18

Whose crew was the first to Circumnavigate the world?

Answer 18

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 19

Where did Balboa reach and why did he call it that?

Answer 19

Pacific ocean because its calm like to pacify a baby

Question 20

Why did the Europeans need a new route to Asia? Why couldnt they go through land or Mediterranean sea?

Answer 20

They needed to pay extra taxes that way

Question 21

Who attacked the Aztecs?

Answer 21

Hernan Cortes

Question 22

Who attacked the Incas?

Answer 22

Francisco Pizzaro

Question 23

Define: Conquistador

Answer 23

Spanish soldiers that led military expeditions in the Americas

Question 24

Define: Hemisphere

Answer 24

Half

Question 25

Define: Plantation

Answer 25

Large field that grows one type of plant

Question 26

Who was Moctezuma?

Answer 26

Ruler of the Aztec Empire

Question 27

Who was the priest that encouraged better treatment of the Native Americans?

Answer 27

Bartolme de las casas

Question 28

Define: Columbian Exchange

Answer 28

The transfer of plants and animals between Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

Question 29

Define:Triangular trade route

Answer 29

The exchange of goods between Europe Africa and America

Question 30

What were items brought from the Americas?

Answer 30

Corn, Turkey, Squash and Potatoes

Question 31

What were items brought from Europe?

Answer 31

Cattle, Diseases, Horses, Grains, Sugarcane

Question 32

What do the three GS identify?

Answer 32

Glory- Power Gospel- Spreading Culture Gold- Riches

Question 33

Who was convinced that they had not reached Asia but a "New World?"

Answer 33

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 34

Encomienda System

Answer 34

A system that gave settlers the right to tax Native Americans

Question 35

Which preist wanted to convert Nativa Americans to Christanity?

Answer 35

Bartolme De Las Casas

Question 36

What were the farms the Spanish operated in America called?

Answer 36

Plantations

Question 37

What Spanish system gave settlers the right to tax Local Native Americans?

Answer 37

Encomienda System

Question 38

Which conquistador conquered the Inca Empire and how did he do it?

Answer 38

Francisco Pizzaro | Alliances and good weapons

Question 39

Who was the king of the Aztec Empire when the conquistadors arrived in Mexico?

Answer 39

Moctezuma

Question 40

Who was the conquistador that conquered the Aztec Empire and who helped him?

Answer 40

Hernan Cortes | Enemies of the Aztecs

Question 41

What were the spanish soldiers who conquered the Americas called?

Answer 41

Conquistadors

Question 42

Immune

Answer 42

Having a natural resistance to a disease

Question 43

Middle Passage

Answer 43

The voyage across the Atlantic that enslaved Africans

Question 44

African Diaspora

Answer 44

The scattering of Africans due to slavery

Question 45

How did the lack of immunity to disease affect the Native Americans peoples?

Answer 45

They died

Question 46

What factors caused colonists to decide to use African slaves?

Answer 46

1. Immune 2. Used to working hard 3. No family