Chapter 1-3 Test Review

Question 1

Leif Ericsson

Answer 1

A Viking adventurer from Scandinavia landed in North America around A.D. 1000, but Viking activity in the New World remained unknown to let Europeans and had no important consequences

Question 2

Martin Luther

Answer 2

Protested false doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church by nailing his Ninety-five Thesis to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany.

Question 3

Prince Henry the navigator

Answer 3

Prince Henry the navigator of Portugal founded a navigation school, employed expert map makers, built an observatory to study the position of the sun and stars, and desired a new kind of ship, the caravel, to sail against the wind

Question 4

Bartholomew Dias

Answer 4

Reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.

Question 5

Vasco da Gama

Answer 5

Sailed all the way around Africa to India, opening a new all-all water route to the east.

Question 6

Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

Dreamed of sailing west across the Atlantic to Asia. Also in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Question 7

Amérigo Vespucci

Answer 7

Was the first to realize that Columbus had discover a new continent was an Italian Sailor
He made four voyages to the new world and wrote letters describing exploits. And in his honor the new land was named America.

Question 8

Pope Alexander VI

Answer 8

Drew the imaginary LINE OF DEMARCATION one hundred leagues west of the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands west of the line.

Question 9

Ponce de León

Answer 9

Conqueror and the governor of,Puerto Rico, embarked on a search for a fabled fountain of youth. He never found it but, he did make the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America he called it Florida.

Question 10

Vasco de Balboa

Answer 10

Crossed the Isathmus of Panama and discover the Pacific Ocean

Question 11

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 11

Embarked on an epic three year voyage around the world

Question 12

Hernando Cortez

Answer 12

Conquered the Aztecs of Mexico

Question 13

Fransisco Pizarro

Answer 13

Conquered the Incas of Peru

Question 14

Fransisco Coronado

Answer 14

Embarked on a fertile search for these legendary cities, with On an army of 300 Spanish solidarse with a large Groupon captive Indians he explored the southernmost United States

Question 15

Hernando de Soto

Answer 15

Explored what is today southereast United States including parte of Florida Georgia Alabama Misisipi Louisianan southern Carolina

Question 16

Philip II

Answer 16

Controlled more of the earths surface more than any man in history

Question 17

Who was the explorer that reached the cape of good hope at the southern tip of Africa

Answer 17

Bartholomew Dias