604 Q1

Question 1

Who established a Portuguese navigation school?

Answer 1

Prince Henry

Question 2

“Colony”

Answer 2

A settlement begun by another country

Question 3

Christopher Columbus was trying to find what, when he found the New World?

Answer 3

A water route to the Indian Ocean (and East Indies)

Question 4

During the exploration/settling of America, what people died because they were not immune to the diseases of the other group?

Answer 4

The native americans

Question 5

Who discovered the “South Sea”?

Answer 5

Vasco de Balboa

Question 6

Most of the explorers who came to America sought what?

Answer 6

Wealth, and cared little for the natives

Question 7

What did Columbus bring with him on later voyages?

Answer 7

Priests, to convert the indians

Question 8

How much gold did Christopher Columbus find?

Answer 8

very little

Question 9

“Demarcation”

Answer 9

A setting of boundaries

Question 10

“Scurvy”

Answer 10

a disease caused by lack of fresh veggies (EAT YOUR VEGGIES!)

Question 11

Who sailed west to reach the east in 1492

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

At the time of of Columbus’s Voyage, no Europeans had seen what ocean?

Answer 12

the Pacific Ocean

Question 13

What did European’s learn from Pigafetta’s precise diary?

Answer 13

That a person traveling around the world, will lose/gain a day

Question 14

The existence/size of the Pacific Ocean, taught Europeans what?

Answer 14

Most of the earth’s surface was covered with water

Question 15

The Pope gave what control over the lands that Columbus discovered?

Answer 15

Spain

Question 16

Who discovered the “South Sea”?

Answer 16

Vasco de Balboa

Question 17

Where did the first permanent European settlement in America begin?

Answer 17

Hispaniola

Question 18

“Conquistadors”

Answer 18

Spanish conquerors

Question 19

Whose ships sailed around the world?

Answer 19

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 20

“Age”

Answer 20

specific period of time

Question 21

How many voyages did Christopher Columbus make to the New World?

Answer 21

Four

Question 22

“Isthmus”

Answer 22

narrow strip of land between two bodies of water

Question 23

European explorers had an increasing knowledge of the oceans during what?

Answer 23

Age of Exploration

Question 24

In what year did Christopher Columbus sail?

Answer 24

1492

Question 25

Christopher Columbus established what in the New World?

Answer 25

A colony

Question 26

What did Magellan’s need to spend June, July, and August in Argentina teach Europeans?

Answer 26

Seasons are reversed, south of the equator

Question 27

“Strait”

Answer 27

The narrow strip of water between two bodies of land

Question 28

Who reached the West coast of India in 1498

Answer 28

Vasco da Gama

Question 29

Columbus estimated that the earth’s circumference was about how much less than it actually is?

Answer 29

6,000 miles less

Question 30

who claimed Brazil for Portugal?

Answer 30

Pedro Cabral

Question 31

The king of which country refused to support Columbus’s voyage?

Answer 31

King of Portugal

Question 32

What did European’s learn from Magellan being able to sell west and arrive back at his starting point?

Answer 32

The earth was round

Question 33

A ship sailing which direction with LOSE a day?

Answer 33

West

Question 34

“Caravel”

Answer 34

a light, narrow ship

Question 35

What river did convinced Columbus that he had found a new continent?

Answer 35

The Orinoco River

Question 36

The Line of Demarcation was established by who?

Answer 36

The Pope

Question 37

Christopher Columbus found what place?

Answer 37

The New World

Question 38

“Navigate” means

Answer 38

to drive/pilot a ship

Question 39

How did changes in life in Europe and America after Christopher Columbus’s discovery affect Native Americans?

Answer 39

They were not beneficial to the Native Americans

Question 40

Who supported Columbus’s voyages?

Answer 40

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

Question 41

Who named the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 41

Ferdinand Magellan