Ch.23

Question 1

Name four new things introduced to the Americas

Answer 1

Horses, pigs, small pox, measles, typhus, wheat, grapes

Question 2

Name four new things introduced to Europe

Answer 2

Tomatoes, potatoes, corn, avocados, blueberries, chocolate

Question 3

Spanish conquerors of the Americas

Answer 3

Conquistadors

Question 4

A system that gave settlers the right to use Native Americans as slaves.

Answer 4

Encomienda

Question 5

The pattern of trade connecting Europe, Africa, and America

Answer 5

Triangular Trade

Question 6

The Aztec rulers of Mexico fought against this Spanish warrior

Answer 6

Hernando Cortes

Question 7

Sponsored Portuguese explorations around the west coast of Africa where my sailors traced for gold, spread Christianity, and brought back news about the extent of Muslim power that I might have to deal with eventually; I also built a naval institute

Answer 7

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 8

Crop grown in Brazil and the Caribbean that is extremely difficult to harvest; thus, after Native Americans died due to disease, African Americans were brought in as slaves

Answer 8

Sugar cane

Question 9

Where did Russians begin settling in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

Answer 9

Siberia

Question 10

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 10

Treaty between Spain and Portugal that divided land and trade – Spain in the west, Portugal in the east

Question 11

Name the three main motives for European exploration

Answer 11

Gold, God, Glory

Question 12

Name three technological advancements that allowed for European exploration from 1400-1800

Answer 12

Magnetic compass, caravel, latitude and longitude, astrolabe

Question 13

Name two New World crops that positively impacted and increased European populations

Answer 13

Potatoes, corn, beans

Question 14

What was the greatest flaw in Columbus’s plan to reach Asia by sailing west

Answer 14

He did not know that North and South America existed

Question 15

Why is Magellan’s voyage often referred to as an exercise in endurance?

Answer 15

Circumnavigated the globe; became involved in political skirmishes in the Phillipines, journey took over three years, crew had to finish voyage without Magellan

Question 16

What was the major impact of the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 16

Britain became the leading empire – gained hegemony of Europe

Question 17

Why is the Seven Year’s War often called the “Great War for empire”?

Answer 17

Many different empires battling each other over trade and land – the winner won hegemony over other empires

Question 18

Name a major rival religion to Christianity.

Answer 18

Islam

Question 19

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 19

an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business

Question 20

Name two English motives for settling in the Americas

Answer 20

Religious persecution, profit (cash crops, land, etc.)

Question 21

Who is known as the father of New France?

Answer 21

Samuel de Champlain

Question 22

What is the Northwest passage? What about the geography of the northern U.S./Canada would make explorers continue to look for it?

Answer 22

Water route through the Americas to Asia – lots of rivers and lakes

Question 23

What is the name given to one leg of the Triangular trade in which African slaves were forced onto ships and sent to the New World as slaves?

Answer 23

Middle Passage

Question 24

The name given to a settlement in a new territory linked to a parent country by trade.

Answer 24

Colony

Question 25

Name one secondary effect of disease in the New World.

Answer 25

Starvation/malnutrition because not enough people to farm; conflicts and rebellion against rulers