SS. Chapter 2

Question 1

first Europeans to make contact with North America

Answer 1

vikings

Question 2

son of Erik the Red, also an adventurer

Answer 2

Leif Erikson

Question 3

person responsible for advances that would make exploration more successful

Answer 3

Henry the Navigator

Question 4

A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship’s location by charting the position of the stars

Answer 4

astrolade

Question 5

ships that used triangle sails, which allowed ships to sail against the wind

Answer 5

caravels

Question 6

person that led an expedition from Portugal southward along the African coast

Answer 6

Barthelewmeu Dias

Question 7

sailor from Genoa, Italy

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

Columbus’ three ships were called

Answer 8

Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria

Question 9

divided the Atlantic Ocean and issued a new boundary for Spain and Portugal

Answer 9

Line of Demarcation

Question 10

moved the line of Demarcation 800 miles farther west

Answer 10

Treaty of Tordeillas

Question 11

A Portuguese navigator who set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America

Answer 11

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 12

someone called to go all the way around the globe

Answer 12

circumnavigator

Question 13

European explorers transferred new plants and animals to the Americas that was known as the

Answer 13

columbian exchange

Question 14

soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas were known as

Answer 14

conquistadors

Question 15

left the island of Cuba to sail to present-day Mexico in 1519

Answer 15

Herman Cortes

Question 16

ruler of a wealthy land to the west

Answer 16

Moctasumall

Question 17

Spanish conquistador who had fewer than 400 men in his army

Answer 17

Fransisca Pizaro

Question 18

established to give settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work

Answer 18

Endomienda system

Question 19

large farms that grew just one kind of crop

Answer 19

plantations

Question 20

who said that the Spanish should try to convert Native Americans to Christianity by showing them love, gentleness and kindness

Answer 20

Bartolome De Lascasas

Question 21

a religious movement that began in small German towns, but quickly spread to much of Europe

Answer 21

Protestant Reformation

Question 22

reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church’s practices

Answer 22

Protestants

Question 23

huge fleet of warships meant to end English plans

Answer 23

Spanish Armada

Question 24

water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Answer 24

North West Passage

Question 25

French sailor who led France's next major exploration of North America

Answer 25

Jacques Cartier

Question 26

document that gave permission for someone to start a colony

Answer 26

charter