explorers test

Question 1

what country did Vasca Da Gama sail for?

Answer 1

Traveled around Africa to India

Portugal

Question 2

what country did John Cabot sail for?

Answer 2

commissioned by England sailed to Canada claiming North America as English territory

England

Question 3

what country did Francis Drake sail for?

Answer 3

hired by England to steal gold and silver from Spanish gallons returning from Mexico and South Africa

Form England

He was a professional pirate

Question 4

what country did Jacques Cartier sail for?

Answer 4

Form France

sailed to Canada also claiming North America as French territory

Question 5

what country did Hernan Cortes sail for?

Answer 5

He sailed for the coast of Mexico and was responsible for wiping out the Aztec people

from Spain

Question 6

what country did Francisco Pizzaro sail for?

Answer 6

from Spain

sailed for Peru and conquered the Incas for Spain

Question 7

what country did Bartholomeu Dias sail for?

Answer 7

From Portugal

he sailed around the tip of Africa

Question 8

what country did Ferdinand Magellan sail for?

Answer 8

First person to circumnavigate the world

From Portugal

Question 9

what country did Cristopher Columbus sail for?

Answer 9

He explored the Americas under the Spanish flag

born in Italy

Question 10

what country did ponce De Leon sail for?

Answer 10

He searched for the fountain of youth, He discovered Florida, and HE SAILED for Puerto Rico

From Spain

Question 11

what circumnavigate mean?

Answer 11

sail or travel all the way around

Question 12

what does caravel mean?

Answer 12

a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.

Question 13

what does Astrolabe?

Answer 13

an instrument used by early astronomers to measure the altitude of stars and planets and also as a navigational aid.

Question 14

what does Mercantilism mean?

Answer 14

new type of economic Polocy.

Nations depended on its wealth like gold and silver

colonies existed to make the mother country wealthy. they only trade with the mother country.

Question 15

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 15

the exchange of plants, animals. humans, bacteria, ad technology between the old world ( Europe Asia, and Africa) and the New world ( the Americas)

Question 16

What was the triangle of trade?

Answer 16

Captured Africans became a part of network called the triangle trade.

The first leg- ships carrying manufacture goods to Africa in exchange for slaves.

The second leg- the middle passage. the passage from Africa to America where the slaves were changed togethering and had to lay on the ground for six weeks. Many people died or threw up on themselves but they never unchanged them.

The third leg- Carried American products to Europe

Question 17

What were the reasons for exploring in the 1400s?

Answer 17

God: to convert the native American Indians to Christianity

Glory: fame

Gold: Money

Question 18

What were the Columbus exchange negative and positives consequences?

Answer 18

positives: New world plants where spread to the old world and old world plants were spread to the new world

negative: it spread dieses that no one was immune to.

Question 19

what was the Spanish social Hierarchy?

Answer 19

Peninsulares: People
born in Spain

Creoles: Parents born
in Spain; children born
in colonies

Mestizos: One parent of
European descent; one
parent of indigenous
descent

Indigenous People

Question 20

What was the relationship between the African Diaspora, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Answer 20

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade is reasonable for the African Diaspora because it spread the Africans all over the world.

Question 21

what was the African Diaspora?

Answer 21

The spread of Africans across the world. Manly through slave trade.

Question 22

who was Olaudah Equiano?

Answer 22

He was a freed slave who wrote about the conditions on the Middle passage. Helped end the slave trade in the British empire. His autobiography was very influential.

Question 23

What did Hernan Cortes do in Mexico?

Answer 23

In Mexico Cortes defeated the Aztec people pretty much compleatly wiping them out.

Question 24

What did Ferdinand Pizzaro do in Peru?

Answer 24

He wiped out the Incan people in Peru.

He captured there Emperor told the Incas to fill a large room with gold and silver. when they did he took the gold and killed the emperor