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Back Then
Social Studies 6th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does Renaissance mean | Re Birth |
| Who made the printing press | Johannes Gutenburg |
| The travels of Marco Polo were | One of the most popular books of the time |
| the science of planning and following route | Navigation |
| long narrow ship that could carry many goods and travel quickly | Caravel |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | hired people to create better maps Ordered scientists to improve the compass and the astrolabe |
| figure out mosion of moon stars and sun =latitude | Astrolabe |
| Compass found | Longitude |
| lands ruled by a nation that won control of them | empires |
| What continents did people only know about | Europe, Asia, Africa |
| who thought it would be faster to go west | Christopher Columbus |
| Risks of exploration | ship could sink, find nothing valuable |
| Benefits | riches |
| Who gives money to CC to explore for 3 years | King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| What did CC promise to The King And Queen | to spread catholic beleifts |
| When did CC leave Spain | Augest 3, 1492 |
| When did CC see land | October 12,1492 |
| Where did CC land | San Salvador |
| John Cabot was | England |
| Cabot's real name was | Giovanni Caboto |
| Amerigo Vespucci was | Italian |
| Name a German map maker that was in the time period of 1507 | Martin Waldseemuller |
| America Was named after | Amerigo Vespucci |
| De Balboa was | Spanish |
| _____________________ Was the first to settle in Americas | De Balboa |
| Was a bad farmer | De Balboa |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese |
| ______________named the Pacific Ocean | Magellan |
| Pacific Means | peaceful |
| Magellan died in a _____________________________________ | battle in the philippines |
| ______________________was the first to go around the world | Magellan |
| Conquistadors | conqueror |
| Why Explore | convert natives to christianity riches adventure national glory |
| juan ponce de Leon was from | Spain |
| he was on ____________2nd voyage | Columbus |
| Ponce de leon Con quered | Puerto rico |
| He was seaching for years for the | fountain of youth |
| Insted of finding the fountain of youth Ponce de Leon he found | Florida |
| Florida means | Flowery in Spanish |
| De Leon returns to Florida to start a settlement | 1521 |
| De Leon is _____________and dies | wounded |
| First spanish explorer to set foot in us was | De Leon |
| Hernado Cortes was from | Spain |
| ______________was sent to finmd gold in the land of the Aztecs | Cortes |
| Many people didn't like the ____________ ruler | Aztecs |
| aztecs beleived in a _____________________________would return to rule them | Light skinned god |
| The Aztecs believed that ___________ was that light skinned god | Cortes |
| Cortes takes ___________ prisoner | ruler |
| What was the priest name that cortes sent | Marcos de Niza |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a ______________ | explorer |
| Cornado explored ____________________ | Southwestern us |
| Francisco Pizarro was from | spain |
| 180 soilders explored western coast of south america in ____________ | 1531 |
| Pizarro encounter the ____________________ | incas |
| captured the __________________ leader | inca |
| Pizarro demands a room filled with _________________________ | gold and silver |
| What does Pizarro do to the inca leader | he kills him ;( |
| Hernado do Soto was | spanish |
| Who explored southeastern us | de soto |
| Who was the first person was the first first europeans to see the mississippi river | De soto |
| What was the worst war against | mobile tribe |
| De soto died with a fever in | 1542 |
| What portion of land was claimed by the spain | 1/2 |
| When many things are happening in the catholic church that time was known as the | reformation |
| People sent missionarries to convert native tribes to be | Catholic |
| People enslaved many of the _____________ | natives |
| spain kept returning with treasures from new land called | Americas |
| THere were other european cultures still looking for a shortcut to __________________ | Asia |
| The first country to find the route would | control trade and become wealthy |
| Vorrazano was | Italien |
| He set sail in | 1524 |
| Varranzo landed near present day | North carolina |
| Varranzo then continued | north |
| Varranzo made _________trips to the Americas | 4 |
| Jacques Cartier sent by | France |
| Cartier on his first trip found mouth of St lawerance river and claimed it for | France |
| 2nd trip went up the _______________ river | St. Lawerance |
| saw fish that loooked like a horse it was a | Wallress |
| Cartier reached moredern day _____________ | Montreal |
| Was stopped by _______________ had to turn back | River rappids |
| Returns a 3rd time and reaches | Quebac |
| Henry hudson made _______________ | 4 voyages |
| 1608 was hudsons first | voyage |
| #rd trip payed by the | Dutch east india company |
| spends a __________ exploring rivers in ny | month |
| What river was named after Henry Hudson | Hudson bay |
| claimed the entire _______________for the dutch | Hudson valley |
| 1610 Hudson ____________ | took his last voyage |
| HUdson sailed the northern coast of | North America |
| Hudson claimed for | England |
| Hudson spends ________months exploring the bay | 3 |
| What month did henry's ship freeze in the ice | November |
| His crew got mad and through _______________________ | hudson + 8 crew members it a little boat |
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