Study Guide 2

Question 0

Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 0

First European to round the tip of Africa.

Question 1

Caravel

Answer 1

Sturdier ships that could cross oceans.

Question 2

Prince Henry

Answer 2

Promoted Portuguese exploration; founded navigation schools

Question 3

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 3

Explored the new ocean. Only 18/250 men and 1/5 ships returned after being the first to circumnavigate the world.

Question 4

Vasco de Gama

Answer 4

Goes to India and fills his ships with pepper, cinnamon, silk, and rare gems. A $200 million dollar profit.

Question 5

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 5

An Italian map maker that set the idea that the unknown land was a new world. America was named after him.

Question 6

Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

Voyaged to the new world and thought the Caribbean was West Indies.

Question 7

Vasco de Balboa

Answer 7

Spanish explorer that led on expedition through the Panama and was the first to see the Pacific Ocean

Question 8

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 8

Conquered the Inca empire and lives there for a long time.

Question 9

Circumnavigate

Answer 9

To sail around the world.

Question 10

Line of Demarcation

Answer 10

Line dividing through the Atlantic Ocean. All lands west are Spain’s. All lands east are Portugal’s

Question 11

Hernando Cortes

Answer 11

Conquered the Aztec Empire; built Mexico City on its ruins.

Question 12

Tenochtitlan

Answer 12

Capital city of the Aztecs.

Question 13

Conquistador

Answer 13

Spanish soldiers that found and conquered land for Spain.

Question 14

Netherlands

Answer 14

Small country in northwestern Europe.

Question 15

Dutch East India Company

Answer 15

Netherlands company founded to establish and direct trade in Asia.

Question 16

Quetzalcoatl

Answer 16

Aztec Deity

Question 17

Colonies

Answer 17

Lands controlled by another nation.

Question 18

Mestizo

Answer 18

Person of mixed Spanish and Native American

Question 19

Encomienda

Answer 19

Grant of land that was given to Spanish settlers in the Americas.

Question 20

New France

Answer 20

Frances empire in North America in the Midwest U.S. and Canada.

Question 21

New Netherlands

Answer 21

Dutch holdings in North America; Driven out by English.

Question 22

Jamestown

Answer 22

First permanent settlement in North America.

Question 23

Pilgrim

Answer 23

Person on a religious journey

Question 24

French and Indian War

Answer 24

War between France and England over North America.

Question 25

Middle Passage

Answer 25

Part of the voyage that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies.

Question 26

Triangular Trade

Answer 26

Trade network that transported slaves from Africa to the West Indies.

Question 27

Atlantic Slave Trade

Answer 27

The buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas.

Question 28

Columbian Exchange

Answer 28

The global transfer of goods during the colonization of the Americas

Question 29

Mercantilism

Answer 29

Theory that held that a country's power depended upon it's wealth.

Question 30

Favorable Balance of Trade

Answer 30

A nation sells more than it buys.

Question 31

Capitalism

Answer 31

Economic system based upon private ownership.

Question 32

Joint Stock Company

Answer 32

Investors bought shores of stock in companies.

Question 33

Geocentric Theory

Answer 33

Earth centered view of the universe.

Question 34

Scientific Revolution

Answer 34

New way of thinking about the natural world.

Question 35

Heliocentric

Answer 35

Earth and planets revolve around the sun.

Question 36

Enlightenment

Answer 36

Intelligent movement that stressed reason and thought to slave problems.

Question 37

Social Contract

Answer 37

And agreement that created government

Question 38

John Locke

Answer 38

A philosopher that believed in self-government and should have the right to rebel.

Question 39

Voltaire

Answer 39

Fought for freedom of religious belief and speech, reason; using books and essays.

Question 40

Montesquieu

Answer 40

Influential French writer, devoted himself to the belief of political liberty.

Question 41

Rousseau

Answer 41

A great philosopher that was passionately committed to individual freedom.