Midterm/First Semester

Question 1

-dad is the king
-has a school of navigation
-invented the quadrant, caravel, and mathematical tables
-wanted to get to China and India

Answer 1

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 2

Who fins the bottom of Africa?

Answer 2

Dias

Question 3

Who is the first to travel around Africa to India?

Answer 3

da Gamma

Question 4

-from central Africa
-traveled out of Africa after converting to Islam to go to Mecca
-rumored to be the wealthiest man of all time

Answer 4

Mansa Manu

Question 5

Why did people start thinking that Africa was full of gold?

Answer 5

Mansa Manu gave lots of gold and wealth to people on the streets on his journey to Mecca

Question 6

What did the Europeans trade to the Africans? (Mansa Manu time period)

Answer 6

Booze and Guns

Question 7

What was a one reason that the slave trade started up in Africa?

Answer 7

Once the Africans ran out of things to trade with the Europeans, they started to trade people instead.

Question 8

When did Ferdinand of Argon and Isabella of Castile get married?

Answer 8

1469

Question 9

When did the Catholic church take over
Spain? (Inquistion)

Answer 9

1478

Question 10

Catholics conquer Jews and Moors. Spain becomes Catholic and rich(1492)

Answer 10

Reconquista

Question 11

When was the Reconquista?

Answer 11

1492

Question 12

When did Christopher Columbus sail? (the ocean blue in…)

Answer 12

1492

Question 13

To who did Spain give a ton of money to sail?

Answer 13

Christopher Columbus

Question 14

What where the names of the ships that Christopher Columbus took on his first voyage?

Answer 14

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 15

What type of people did Columbus’ second voyage consist of?

Answer 15

Greedy people

Question 16

Who’s voyage was the first to wrap around the entire world? (He dies in the middle of it but the voyage goes on)

Answer 16

Magellan

Question 17

-conquered the Aztecs (1519)
-put the Aztec’s leader (Motazuma) into jai but the people broke him out
- got the enemies of the Aztecs to help him conquer them

Answer 17

Cortez

Question 18

What did the Indians blame the reason they stopped dying on? (real reason was building up immunity)

Answer 18

Blamed it on the Spanish being Catholic

Question 19

When did Pizzaro conquer the Incas?

Answer 19

1532

Question 20

-modern-day New York and New Jersey
-established major trading centers (Amsterdam)
-accepting of all people

Answer 20

Holland

Question 21

What was/is 640 acers equal to?

Answer 21

One square mile or one section of land

Question 22

How many acres were in one section of land that was used to split up the country?

Answer 22

640 acres

Question 23

Who bought Manhattan with $24 from he Indians?

Answer 23

Peter Minuit

Question 24

What animal did the French find in America and start making profit off of?

Answer 24

The beaver

Question 25

Why did the French encourage their people going to America to get with the Indians?

Answer 25

In order to conquer places and settlements by using interracial marriages

Question 26

What animal was on the French coin?

Answer 26

The Beaver

Question 27

-bastard -lived in France (not French though) -fights the Battle of Hastings and defeats everyone (1066)

Answer 27

William the Conqueror

Question 28

Who signs a document to give away some of his power? (Magna Carta)

Answer 28

King John (beginning of the Kings giving up their power)

Question 29

Who does King Henry the VII (7) want his first born son to marry?

Answer 29

Catherine of Aragon

Question 30

Who was Catherine of Aragon the child of?

Answer 30

Ferdinand of Spain

Question 31

What is King Henry VII (7) first born son's name?

Answer 31

Prince Arthur

Question 32

How long after his marriage to Cathrine does Prince Arthur die?

Answer 32

5 months after

Question 33

After Arthur dies, who is set to marry Cathrine?

Answer 33

Henry VIII (Henry VII's second born son)

Question 34

Who is known as the Warrior Pope?

Answer 34

Julius II

Question 35

Who wanted to reform the Catholic Church?

Answer 35

Martin Luther

Question 36

What did Martin Luther think was corrupt about the Catholic Church?

Answer 36

The church was allowing people to "buy" their way out of purgatory

Question 37

Who wrote a book defending the Pope and the Catholic Church?

Answer 37

Henry VIII (then called Fidei defensor)

Question 38

How many children did Henry VIII and Catherine have?

Answer 38

6 total but only one survived

Question 39

What was Henry VIII and Cathrine's only child's name?

Answer 39

Mary (bloody Mary)

Question 40

What was Henry VIII's son who was born from a woman that he cheated on Catherine with's name?

Answer 40

Henry Fitzroy

Question 41

Who did Henry VIII lust over while he was married to Catherine?

Answer 41

Anne Boleyn

Question 42

What were the terms that Anne had in order for Henry and her to sleep together?

Answer 42

He had to divorce Catherine and marry her.

Question 43

Why won't the pope annul Henry VIII and Catherine's marriage so Henry can marry Anne?

Answer 43

He won't annul because then Mary will become a bastard and Catherine will become a slut and he doesn't want to make the people in Spain mad.

Question 44

What does Henry VIII do in order to divorce Catherine for Anne?

Answer 44

He became the Head of the Church of England

Question 45

When did Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII get married?

Answer 45

1501

Question 46

How many children do Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII have together?

Answer 46

Three but only one daughter survived (Elizabeth)

Question 47

What happened at the Tower of London in 1536?

Answer 47

Henry puts Anne Boleyn on trial for being a witch and Anne is executed. Henry hires a swordsman so that it will be a quick death.

Question 48

Who said "At least I have a small neck."?

Answer 48

Anne Boleyn

Question 49

What is Henry VIII's third wife's name?

Answer 49

Jane Seymour

Question 50

What is the name of Henry VIII first living son? (Mother: Jane Seymour)

Answer 50

Edward VI "Edward the Sick"

Question 51

How does Jane Seymour die?

Answer 51

She dies giving birth to Edward VI

Question 52

Who is Henry VIII's fourth wife?

Answer 52

Anne of Cleves

Question 53

What does Henry VIII say about Anne of Cleves?

Answer 53

He says she has the face of a horse, body of a boy, and smells like a cow

Question 54

After divorcing Anne of Cleves, who is Henry VIII's fifth wife?

Answer 54

Kathrine Howard

Question 55

Why do Kathrine Howard and Henry VIII get divorced?

Answer 55

Henry catches her cheating on him and he executes her

Question 56

Who is Henry VIII's sixth and final wife?

Answer 56

Kathrine Parr

Question 57

When does Henry VIII die?

Answer 57

1547

Question 58

At what age does Edward VI become king and when does he die?

Answer 58

He became king at 9 and dies at 15

Question 59

Who takes the throne after Edwards death?

Answer 59

Queen Mary I "Bloody Mary"

Question 60

-catholic and kills a ton of people because they don't want to be catholic -nickname comes from her many miscarriages -would not kill Elizabeth

Answer 60

Queen Mary I "Bloody Mary"

Question 61

What year does Queen Mary I die?

Answer 61

1558

Question 62

When did Queen Elizabeth I take the throne and what was she known for?

Answer 62

1558; known as the greatest monarch

Question 63

Who makes Queen Elizabeth fall in love with her and then cheats on her?

Answer 63

Sir Robert Dudley

Question 64

What does Queen Elizabeth say after being cheated on?

Answer 64

She says she will never marry. Says that she is married to England.

Question 65

- flirts with Queen Elizabeth -a pirate -asks Elizabeth for a colony in America and she gives him Roanoak

Answer 65

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 66

What ends up happening to Roanoak?

Answer 66

Sir Walter Raleigh goes to get supplies and ends up forgetting about it leading to it being called the "Lost colony"

Question 67

Who wants to take Elizabeth off of the throne but fails?

Answer 67

Spain

Question 68

What does Elizabeth do that makes people start to take her seriously?

Answer 68

She puts on armor and leads an army

Question 69

When does Queen Elizabeth die?

Answer 69

around 1603

Question 70

Who takes over the throne once Queen Elizabeth dies?

Answer 70

King James

Question 71

-named after the Queen -established to make money

Answer 71

Virginia

Question 72

When was Jamestown founded?

Answer 72

1607

Question 73

1-disease causing mosquitos 2-builds bathroom upstream and infects water 3-lazy

Answer 73

the problems with Virginia or Jamestown

Question 74

Who marries Pocahontas?

Answer 74

John Rolfe

Question 75

Why does John Smith marry an Indian?

Answer 75

In order to make peace with the Indians

Question 76

How long does the peace between the Powhatans and the English last?

Answer 76

from 1614-1622

Question 77

Why do the Indians attack the English in 1622?

Answer 77

Becuase Pocahontas dies

Question 78

-marries Pocahontas -says they should plant tobacco

Answer 78

John Rolfe

Question 79

Since tobacco is becoming more popular, what do poor people sign contracts to do?

Answer 79

Work for four or five years and after they will be free

Question 80

When was the Virginia House of Burgesses created?

Answer 80

1619

Question 81

When did the first Africans arrive in Jamestown?

Answer 81

1619

Question 82

What percentage of Africans came to America during the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 82

4%

Question 83

What does chattel mean?

Answer 83

Slaves/Property

Question 84

When did the “Slave Codes” begin?

Answer 84

1662

Question 85

When was Nathanial Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 85

1676

Question 86

-lead 1,000 Virginians in a rebellion against the gov. Berkeley -upset with Berkeley -dies of fever and ends the rebellion -thought Berkeley wasn’t doing enough against Indians

Answer 86

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 87

-named after the Virgin Mary -very Catholic -founded in 1632 by Lord Baltimore -runs exactly like Virginia except Catholic

Answer 87

Maryland (1632)

Question 88

-freedom of religion -supported by Catholics -guaranteed toleration of Christians and Catholics but no other religions -declared death to other religions

Answer 88

Toleration Act of 1649

Question 89

Who wanted to separate from England?

Answer 89

The Seperatists

Question 90

Who wanted to stay and purify England?

Answer 90

The Puritans