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Reetz Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did they call a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain? | conquistadors |
| Name the system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or demand labor in exchange for protecting them. | encomienda system |
| What word means to travel all the way around the world? | circumnavigate |
| What device enabled navigators to learn their ships location by charting the stars? | astrolabe |
| Name the type of ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind and had rudders to improve steering. | caravels |
| What is the name of a large farm the usually grows one crop for profit? | plantation |
| What is the name of an official document that gives someone the right to establish a colony? | charter |
| What is the word that says you have a natural resistance to a disease? | immune |
| T or F...Leif Ericksson's son shared his father's love of adventure? | False |
| T or F...The Spanish Armada defeated the English fleet? | False |
| T or F...Italian explorer John Cabot discovered a water route through North America that went from the Atlantic to the Pacific and he claimed it for Italy. | False |
| T or F...Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the coast of present day Florida. | True |
| T or F...Prince Henry the Navigator paid for many expeditions but he never went on a voyage himself. | True |
| T or F...Francisco Pizarro and his men conquered the Inca Empire. | True |
| T or F...One negative part of the Columbian Exchange was the deadly diseases that were carried from place to place. | True |
| T or F...During the African Diaspora, many enslaved Africans were returned to the home countries and families. | False |
| Why did the Vikings leave North America only after a few years? | there was constant threat of attack by Native Americans |
| Ferdinand Magellan's sailors were the first to do what? | sail all the way around the globe |
| Which treaty moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles further west? | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Any of the land Christopher Columbus explored had to be claimed for which country? | Spain |
| Who landed on and conquered the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico? | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| Samuel de Champlain founded a colony on the St. Lawrence River and named it what? | Quebec |
| Line of Demarcation...Name the countries that could claim land and on which side they claimed. | Portugal on the East and Spain on the West |
| Who led explorations of North America and claimed land for France? | Jacques Cartier |
| Name the reasons the Spaniards wanted to defeat the Aztec Empire. | 1. the empire was a good source of gold and silver 2. buildings and riches were impressive 3. they wanted to convert them to Christianity |
| What line divied the Atlantic Ocean? | Line of Demarcation |
| Hernan Cortez left Cuba to sail to what country? | Mexico |
| Name the route that allowed ships to sail through North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific | Northwest Passage |
| Who founded a school of navigation to teach better methods of sailing? | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| What continent was Columbus convinced he could reach if he sailed west? | Asia |
| Name the waterway across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Afrians were forced to endure. | The Middle Passage |
| The Protestant Reformation tried to change practices of which religion? | Catholic |
| What were the key pieces to the slave culture in the Americas? | family and religion |
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