Ch. 6 The Revival of Capitalism and the Expansion of Europe

Question 1

What were the Spice Islands?

Answer 1

The Moluccas

Question 2

Jacob Fugger

Answer 2

1459-1525

Question 3

Marco Polo

Answer 3

c. 1254 - c. 1325

Question 4

Christopher Columbus discovers the New World

Answer 4

1492

Question 5

Jacques Cartier makes his first voyage to Canada

Answer 5

1534

Question 6

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 6

1454-1512

Question 7

Ponce de Leon

Answer 7

c. 1460-1521

Question 8

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 8

1494

Question 9

Hernan Cortes

Answer 9

1485-1547

Question 10

The Portuguese take Malacca on the Malay peninsula

Answer 10

1511

Question 11

The Portuguese establish a slave-trading station in West Africa

Answer 11

1442

Question 12

Pedro Cabral

Answer 12

c. 1467-c.1520

Question 13

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 13

1394-1460

Question 14

Francisco de Coronado explores what became the southwest United States

Answer 14

1540-1542

Question 15

John Cabot’s voyages to North America

Answer 15

1497 and 1498

Question 16

Giovanni da Verrazano

Answer 16

c.1480-c.1527

Question 17

Portuguese explorers discovered the Cape Verde Islands.

Answer 17

1460

Question 18

Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztec empire in Mexico

Answer 18

1519-1521

Question 19

Amerigo Vespucci makes two voyages of exploration along the Atlantic coast of South America

Answer 19

1499-1500

Question 20

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 20

c. 1476-1541

Question 21

King John II (of Portugal)

Answer 21

r. 1455-1495

Question 22

Pope Alexander VI establishes the Papal Line of Demarcation

Answer 22

1493

Question 23

The Portuguese explore the Azores

Answer 23

1427-1431

Question 24

Francisco de Coronado

Answer 24

c. 1510-1554

Question 25

Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut on India's Malabar coast

Answer 25

1498

Question 26

John Cabot

Answer 26

c.1450-c.1498

Question 27

Alfonso de Albuquerque

Answer 27

1453-1515

Question 28

Alfonso de Albuquerque takes Goa on the Indian coast

Answer 28

1510

Question 29

Vasco da Gama

Answer 29

c. 1469-1524

Question 30

Pedro Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal

Answer 30

1500

Question 31

King John I (of Portugal)

Answer 31

r. 1385-1433

Question 32

Jacques Cartier

Answer 32

1491-1557

Question 33

Vasco de Balboa

Answer 33

c. 1475-1519

Question 34

Christopher Columbus

Answer 34

1451-1506

Question 35

The Portuguese establish a trading station at Macao on the southern coast of China

Answer 35

1557

Question 36

Pizarro overran the Inca empire in Peru

Answer 36

1532

Question 37

Giovanni da Verrazano explores the coast of North America

Answer 37

1524

Question 38

Bartholomew Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 38

1488

Question 39

The first Portuguese ship reaches Japan

Answer 39

1542

Question 40

An expedition originally led by Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigate the globe

Answer 40

1519-1522

Question 41

Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca empire in Peru

Answer 41

1532

Question 42

Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator establishes a school of seamanship and navigation

Answer 42

1419

Question 43

Sebastian Cabot

Answer 43

c.1483-1557

Question 44

Cortes conquers Aztec empire

Answer 44

1519-1521

Question 45

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 45

c. 1480-1521

Question 46

Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

Answer 46

1513

Question 47

Vasco de Balboa crosses Panama to the Pacific Ocean

Answer 47

1513

Question 48

The Portuguese reach Cape Blanco, South of the Tropic of Cancer

Answer 48

1442

Question 49

Martin Waldseemuller printed his map with "America"

Answer 49

1507

Question 50

The Portuguese round Cape Bojador in West Africa

Answer 50

1434