Chapter 1: Winds and Wilderness

Question 0

Who wrote Marco Polo’s story?

Answer 0

Rustichello

Question 1

Which explorer spent 20 years in China?

Answer 1

Marco Polo

Question 2

Sailed along the coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 2

Bartolomeu Dias

Question 3

Sailed to India around Africa

Answer 3

Vasco de Gama

Question 4

Thought shortest route to the East was through the West

Answer 4

Columbus

Question 5

What shape did most educated people of Columbus’s day think the world was?

Answer 5

Round; they just did not know how large

Question 6

First man to realize America was a “New Word”

Answer 6

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 7

Mapmaker who named the Americas after Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 7

Martin Waldseemuller

Question 8

Reached Newfoundland, providing England’s claim to North America

Answer 8

John Cabot

Question 9

First to circumnavigate the globe

Answer 9

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 10

Which church dominated life in Europe?

Answer 10

Roman Catholic Church

Question 11

What is the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 11

a movement that rediscovered Biblical truth and shattered the religious monopoly of Rome

Question 12

Who started the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 12

Martin Luther

Question 13

Who were other Reformers?

Answer 13

Zwingli, Calvin, Knox

Question 14

How long were the religious wars? (Roman Catholic vs. Protestant)

Answer 14

1520-1600

Question 15

Conquered the Aztecs of Mexico

Answer 15

Hernando Cortez

Question 16

Chief of the Aztecs

Answer 16

Montezuma

Question 17

Capital city of the Aztecs?

Answer 17

Tenochtitlan

Question 18

Searched for the 7 cities of Cibola; discovered the Grand Canyon

Answer 18

Francisco de Coronado

Question 19

First to land on American mainland (Florida)

Answer 19

Ponce de Leon

Question 20

Discovered the Mississippi River

Answer 20

Hernando de Soto

Question 21

King of Spain bent on crushing the Protestant movement in Europe

Answer 21

King Phillip II

Question 22

Who were the Sea Dogs?

Answer 22

Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, who attacked Spanish ships

Question 23

What was the Line of Demarcation?

Answer 23

Drawn by Pope Alexander VI dividing the world between Spain and Portugal

Question 24

What did the defeat of the Spanish Armada entail?

Answer 24

Secured Protestant future in England

Question 25

Sponsored 2 attempts to colonize Virginia

Answer 25

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 26

What shared the expenses and profits of founding a colony?

Answer 26

Joint Stock Company

Question 27

Which company had land in Southern Virginia?

Answer 27

London Stock Company

Question 28

Which company had land in Northern Virgnia?

Answer 28

Plymouth Stock Company

Question 29

Name 4 problems Jamestown faced.

Answer 29

Illness, Indians, gold fever, winter.

Question 30

Used to attract settlers to the New World

Answer 30

Nova Britania

Question 31

Name 3 characteristics of Spanish colonization.

Answer 31

• Structured settlement (Plantation society)
• Directly controlled by the crown
• Few came

Question 32

Name 3 characteristics of French colonization.

Answer 32

• Sparse settlements (long, cold winter)
• Dependent on Mother country (no self-government)
• Fur trade profitable

Question 33

Name 3 characteristics of English colonization.

Answer 33

• Came in greater numbers and brought families
• Brought British Heritage- similar houses, schools, books
• Self-government- full rights of British citizenship