Chapter 13

Question 0

What were the explorers need?

Answer 0

• maps
• compasses (instruments)
• ships

Question 1

What were the three motives for exploration?

Answer 1

“For gold, glory, and God”

Question 2

Prince Henry “_____”

Answer 2

The navigator

Question 3

Who “found” the Cape of Good Hope?

Answer 3

Dias

Question 4

Who was the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa?

Answer 4

Vasco da Gama

Question 5

Where did Christopher Columbus land?

Answer 5

San Salvador

Question 6

What does San Salvador mean?

Answer 6

“Holy Savior”

Question 7

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Answer 7

Magellan

Question 8

What civilization is known for the following: art, calendar, gone when explorers came?

Answer 8

Mayan

Question 9

What was the capital of the Aztec civilization?

Answer 9

Tenochitlán

Question 10

What nation is known for being fighters?

Answer 10

Aztec

Question 11

Who destroyed the Aztec civilization?

Answer 11

Cortés

Question 12

Who destroyed the Inca civilization?

Answer 12

Pizarro

Question 13

What was the document and that basically stated that Spain had the rights to America?

Answer 13

Requerimento

Question 14

What did the Requerimento state?

Answer 14

• Pope has God’s authority
• Pope gives Spain New World
• Indians can become Catholic and Spanish

Question 15

Who is known as the “Father of New France”?

Answer 15

Samuel de Champlain

Question 16

What to explorers explored the Mississippi River and claimed the land west of it?

Answer 16

Marquette and Joliet

Question 17

What hired Italian explorer led the first English exploration to the New World?

Answer 17

John Cobot

Question 18

Who controlled the Indian trading post?

Answer 18

Pedro Cabral

Question 19

Describe the difference between mercantilism and capitalism.

Answer 19

Mercantilism – money for mother country

Capitalism – money for individual

Question 20

_____ went to China when he was 17 years old.

Answer 20

Marco Polo

Question 21

Where was Christopher Columbus sent from?

Answer 21

Spain

Question 22

Pope Alexander VI set the line dividing the land given to Portugal and Spain. This is known as _____.

Answer 22

The line of demarcation

Question 23

Japan was _____ friendly than China.

Answer 23

More

Question 24

Who sparked in the interest in exploration?

Answer 24

Marco Polo

Question 25

How did Marco Polo spark the interest in exploration?

Answer 25

By telling stories of his explorations

Question 26

The _____ provided western Europe with the means, namely navigational equipment and finances, to reach the Orient.

Answer 26

The Renaissance

Question 27

What is the term that describes the system of determining wealth by gold?

Answer 27

Mercantilism

Question 28

Mercantilism = well for for the _____.

Answer 28

Mother country

Question 29

What is a point's (on the earth) distance from the equator known as?

Answer 29

Latitude

Question 30

What two countries make up the Iberian Peninsula?

Answer 30

Spain and Portugal

Question 31

_____ and _____ where the leading nations of the age of exploration.

Answer 31

Spain and Portugal

Question 32

Who was largely responsible for Portugal's early success in exploration?

Answer 32

Prince Henry "The navigator"

Question 33

Who is known as "The greatest figure in the history of exploration"?

Answer 33

Prince Henry "the navigator"

Question 34

Who started a school of navigation?

Answer 34

Print Henry "the navigator"

Question 35

Who were the three major explorers of Portugal?

Answer 35

Prince Henry "the navigator" Dias Vasco da Gama

Question 36

When did Christopher Columbus land?

Answer 36

August 1492

Question 37

Who is the man that America is named after?

Answer 37

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 38

Hearing of Amerigo Vespucci's discovery, German mapmaker _____ began to sell maps of the new world, referring to it as America.

Answer 38

Waldseemöller

Question 39

North Eastern Indians Known for...

Answer 39

Confederation (they work/banded together)

Question 40

South Eastern Indians Know for…

Answer 40

Mound (grave) builders

Question 41

Plains Indians Known for...

Answer 41

Herds (Buffalo)

Question 42

Southwestern Indians Known for…

Answer 42

Cliff dwellers

Question 43

West coast Indians Known for…

Answer 43

Small tribes

Question 44

The Inca empire flourished along the western coast of South America where _____ is today.

Answer 44

Peru

Question 45

What civilization is known for being the most sophisticated?

Answer 45

Inca

Question 46

Who were conquistadors?

Answer 46

Spanish conquerors

Question 47

Who was the first person to see the Pacific?

Answer 47

Balboa

Question 48

Who is known as "the greatest of the conquistadors"?

Answer 48

Cortés

Question 49

Who discovered the Grand Canyon?

Answer 49

Coronado (his men)

Question 50

Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, explored the eastern coast of _____.

Answer 50

Canada

Question 51

Who was the hired English explorer that searched for a shorter route to the Orient (for the Dutch)?

Answer 51

Henry Hudson

Question 52

What English explorers was the leader of the first permanent English settlement?

Answer 52

John Smith

Question 53

What was the first permanent English settlement?

Answer 53

Jamestown

Question 54

When was Jamestown started?

Answer 54

1607

Question 55

In mercantilism, the nation's wealth and strength was measured by the possession of _____ and _____.

Answer 55

Silver and gold

Question 56

What term is best described as individuals sharing expenses, gains, and losses?

Answer 56

Companies

Question 57

What were the Portuguese shortcomings?

Answer 57

>Too vast for the small nation >Lost many men at sea >Cruelty of the traders

Question 58

The East Indies traded a long side the _____.

Answer 58

Dutch

Question 59

What country seized control of the Persian Gulf?

Answer 59

India

Question 60

What country established the English East India Company?

Answer 60

India