Midterm 62-92

Question 1

Name the explorer whose crew traveled around the world

Answer 1

Magellan

Question 2

Name the Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztecs

Answer 2

Hernando Cortez

Question 3

Name the Spanish explorer who defeated the Incans

Answer 3

Francisco Pizarro

Question 4

Name the French explorer who discovered the St Lawrence River.

Answer 4

Jacques Cartier

Question 5

Name the French explorer who discovered 3 large lakes and became known as the father of New France

Answer 5

Champlain

Question 6

Name the group that founded Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 6

Puritans

Question 7

Name the colony that john smith helped in 1607

Answer 7

Jamestown

Question 8

What cash crop helped to make Jamestown a profitable colony

Answer 8

Tobacco

Question 9

A colonial ruler who represented the Spanish King was a _______

Answer 9

Viceroy

Question 10

Large country estates and Spanish colonies were called _________

Answer 10

Hacienda

Question 11

Poor neighborhoods and South America colonies were called ________

Answer 11

Barrios

Question 12

Name the Venezuelan who liberated Venezuela and Columbia, sometimes called the George Washington of South America

Answer 12

Simon Bolivar

Question 13

Name the king of France who established an absolute monarchy that became a model for the rest of Europe

Answer 13

Louis the 14th (XIV)

Question 14

Name the ruler who turned Vienna into an important center for the arts in the 1700s

Answer 14

Maria Theresa

Question 15

Who developed a strong monarchy in Russia?

Answer 15

Catherine the Great

Question 16

Father of modern chemistry

Answer 16

Lavoisier

Question 17

Scientists who developed a smallpox vaccine

Answer 17

Edward Jenner

Question 18

English astronomer who predicted the return of a comet that was consequently named after him

Answer 18

Edmond Halley

Question 19

Who theorized that the earth revolves around the sun?

Answer 19

Copernicus

Question 20

Who used the telescope to confirm that the earth orbits around the sun?

Answer 20

Galileo

Question 21

Empiricism is a philosophy that man can only find knowledge through _________

Answer 21

Experience

Question 22

Bougainville explored for what country?

Answer 22

France

Question 23

Captain Cook colonized for what country?

Answer 23

England

Question 24

What explorer named the Solomon Islands?

Answer 24

Alvaro de Mendana

Question 25

Name all three regions that Abel Tasman explored

Answer 25

Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Holland (Australia)

Question 26

On what group of islands was James Cook killed?

Answer 26

Hawaii

Question 27

Who was the first governor of Australia?

Answer 27

Arthur Phillip

Question 28

Group of islands named after the appearance of its dark skinned inhabitants and includes Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, and Fiji

Answer 28

Melanesia

Question 29

Group of islands whose name means “many islands”

Answer 29

Polynesia

Question 30

Group of islands whose name means small lands

Answer 30

Micronesia

Question 31

The Cape of Good Hope is located at the southern tip of what continent?

Answer 31

Africa