Question | Answer |
Who was the 1st explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? | Bartholemeu Dias |
Who was the explorer who claimed what is now Brazil for Portugal? | Cabral |
Who was the explorer who discovered the islands later known as the West Indies? | Christopher Columbus |
Who was the explorer who seized the Inca Empire for Spain? | Pizarro |
Who was the explorer whose voyage up the St. Lawrence River gave France a claim to much of eastern Canada? | Cartier |
Who was the 1st explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian Ocean to India? | Vasco da Gama |
Who was the explorer who sailed down the Mississippi and claimed Louisiana for France? | laSalle |
Who was the explorer who claimed the Philippine Islands for Spain? | Magellan |
Who was the founder of Quebec? | Champlain |
Who was the explorer who claimed the "South Sea" for Spain? | Balboa |
Who was the explorer who invaded Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire? | Cortes |
Who was the Italian explorer after whom America was named? | Amerigo Vespucci |
Juan Ponce de ______, Spanish explorer who sailed northward from Puerto Rico in 1513 and explored Florida | Leon |
Prince _________ (the __________) established the nation of _______ as a leader in knowledge about the seas. | Henry (the Navigator)/Portugal |
In 1488, ________ sailed around the _________ at the southern tip of Africa. | Bartholomeu Dias/Cape of Good Hope |
The Portuguese sea captain, ________, was the 1st to sail across the _______ to reach India in the year 1498. | Vasco da Gama/Indian Ocean |
The _________ involved the movement of products and diseases between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. | Columbian Exchange |
Pope Alexander VI drew the _____ on a world map through the middle of the Atlantic. The nation of _______ was granted new lands E of the line, while ______ received lands W of the line. This agreement was adjusted the following year thru the _______. | line of demarcation/Portugal/Spain/Treaty of Tordesillas |
Which Portuguese explorer accidentally reached the east coast of South America in 1500? | Pedro Cabral |
For which explorer is America named? | Amerigo Vespucci |
Why did Ferdinand Magellan change the name of the Great South Sea to the Pacific Ocean? | The latin word pacificus means peaceful |
Who had first named the Great South Sea? | Balboa |
2 Islands visited by Christopher Columbus. | Hispaniola and Cuba |
Explorers that the English, French, and Dutch sent to attempt to find a Northwest Passage. | Marquette and Joliet, Cartier, Champlain, Hudson, La Salled, Cabot |
The fleet of the navigator, ______, from the nation of ________ was the 1st to circumnavigate the globe, while an Englishman named _____ became the 2nd. | Magellan/Portugal/Drake |
Cartier, Champlain, and La Salle explored a region that became known as ________. | New France |
In 1513, the Spanish explorer ________crossed a narrow strip of land known as the ________, to be the 1st European to view the Pacific Ocean. | Vasco Nunz de Balboa/Isthmus of Panama |
The Spanish settlement of _______ was established by De Soto. | St Augustine |
The center of the Inca civilization was centered in which South American mountain range? This range runs through which modern nations? | Andes/Peru and Chile |
The French explorer _______ claimed Louisiana for the French king based on his travels down the ________ Rivers. | La Salle/Mississippi |
The Spanish explorer, ________, led an expedition to what is today the state of Florida. | Ponce de leon |
The Aztec ruler, ________, was killed by the Spanish explorer, _______ in the city of _________. | Moctezuma/Hernan Cortes/Tenochtitlan |
Atahualpa, ruler of the ________ was strangled by order of the Spanish leader named ________. | Inca Empire/Francisco Pizarro |
The development of ________ allowed people to buy shares of stock that gave them part ownership in businesses. | joint-stock companies |
To gain a _________ (selling more goods than buying) nations could impose a ______, or tax on imports. The intent of this tax was to _______. | Favorable balance of trade/Tariff/Discourge from buying foreign goods or reduce the amt of goods imported into the country |
The economic theory called ________ encouraged the establishment and settling of ________. This they hoped would bring in greater amts of _______. Besides the mining of these minerals, colonies were expected to provide______ | Mercantilism/Colonies/Gold&silver, precious metals/raw materials |
The ______ was the 2nd stage of the ______ which moved goods and slaves across the ______. | Middle Passage/triangular trade/Atlantic Ocean |
Slaves were needed to replace the native Indians who died because they had no _______ to diseases that the Europeans brought with them. | immunities |
What is Flora? | plants |
What is Fauna? | animals |
What is demographics? | Study of populations/statistics |
What is culture? | the lifestyle, beliefs, language, writing, education, entertainment, location of a group of people. |
What is ethnocentric? | culture- you believe yours is the best and other cultures are wrong (ex. eye contact too long) |
What food/animals went from new world to europe? | corn, potatoes (to Ireland), tomatoes, peppers (bell, chili), cacao plant to make chocolate (to Belgium, switz, france), vanilla, tobacco, beans, pumpkin, turkey, guinea pig |
What foods/ animals went from europe to america? | horse, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, honey bees, wheat, rice (from china), sugar cane, lettuce |
What technology went from the old world to the new world? | wheel (only one native am. group used as a toy), written language, fish hooks |
What technology went from the new world to the old world? | none |
What diseases did europeans bring? | smallpox (no control on getting disease), almost wiped out pop. in central/s america |
what disease did the indians give to europeans? | syphilis (sexual disease), can kill you, goes to your brain |
1518-1800 ____X as many africans as europeans landed in the americas. | 7 |
When was slave trade eliminated? | 1800 |
What is the mulatto race? | Parents-one black, one white |
What is the mestizo race? | parents-european + indian |
Did columbus discover the Americas? | no-he discovered islands |
How did native Asians get to America in the Ice Age? | Discovered it on land bridge (of ice) |
What period was happeneing at the same time as the age of exploration? | middle ages |
Why did people know about columbus' voyage/discovery so soon? | printing press |
What are 2 viewpoints of columbus? | 1great sailor but couldn't control men 2not a good man b/c he brought racism/death to indians |
What does it mean when you say hindsight is 20/20 | You can see easily now where they went wrong |
What was the exploration motivation? | gold/wealth-power, glory-adventure, god |
Where did the Mayans live? | Yucatan Peninsula |
What did the Mayans introduce? | the wheel, step pyramids, calandar based on moon/holidays, understand zero |
Where did the Incas live? | Andes Mt. |
Did the Incas have a big empire? | Yes! huge! 2500 mi. |
What are alteplanos? | high flat plains |
What did the Incas eat? | Giant worms w/ protein |
What was the Inca burial system? | Rolled up person in a ball & wrapped them up |
Where did the Aztecs live? | Mexico- high dry plateau w/ mt. ranges near//Valley of Mexico//Lake Texcoco/Tenochtitlan |
About how many humans did the Aztecs sacrifice per year? | 20000 |
What group of people did slavery start with? | Hebrews in Egypt |
When/where did slavery make a comeback? | 1400s in Portugal on the Iberian Peninsula |
What is justification? How did this apply to slavery? | Make it right- Slavery is okayb because theyre black and pagan (not christian) |
Did blacks enslave other blacks? | yes |
Where slaves willingly traded to america? | yes |
What is a ships' hold? | Cargo storage, about 5-6 ft tall, put in layers, 2-3 layers of people, shackled to another person |
How long was the voyage to america? | 3wks to 6 mo dep. on conditions |
What are loose/tight packers? | Loose-put less people on ship than it can hold, tight-put more people on ship than it can hold |
Were women and children tied down on ships? | No but women were raped and children were mentally/verbally abused |
What is slabber sauce made of? | horse beans, flour, water, red pepper (burns throat to show control) |
Where wer the most slaves sent? | brazil |