Question | Answer |
What country first sent an explorer westward? | Spain |
What country claimed the land along the east coast of the present-day United States? | England |
What does latitude measure? | The distances north or south of the equator |
What term means the renewal of learning and culture in Western Europe? | Renaissance |
What European country colonized Central America and much of South America? | Spain |
In what period of time did European explorers sail to North and South America? | Age of Exploration |
What invention helped the Europeans establish colonial empires in the New World? | guns, new weapons using gunpowder |
What does longitude measure? | Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
Where was gunpowder invented? | China |
When was gunpowder invented? | In the 1200s |
What invention made it possible to arrange individual letters and print pages inexpensibly and quickly? | Movable type |
What navigation instrument was used to determine a ship's position at sea? | astrolab |
What European country first colonized the Mississippi River Valley? | France |
What European was credited with inventing the printing press with movable type? | Johannes Gutenberg |
When did the Age of Exploration begin? | In the 1400s |
What explorer claimed Brazil for Portugal? | Pedro Cabral |
What group helped to make more accurate maps? | explorers |
What were some things which led to the Age of Discovery? | compass, rudder, more accurate maps, movable type printing press, gunpowder, astrolabe |
For whom is America named? | Amerigo Vespucci |
What explorer led to the establishment of Spanish colonies in the West Indies? | Christopher Columbus |
Which European country was first in its exploration of North America---France or England? | England with John Cabot in 1497 |
What group first came to North America about 1000? | Vikings |
By the year 1550, what country had the largest empire in the New World? | Spain |