Chapter 17 - People

Question 0

Portuguese explorer who sailed around the tip of Africa

Answer 0

Bartholomeu Dias
or
Vasco da Gama

Question 1

brought together leading cartographers, astronomers, and mathematicians to study navigation

Answer 1

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 2

Italian navigator who mistakenly believed he had discovered a new trade route to Asia

Answer 2

Christopher Columbus

Question 3

Portuguese soldier of fortune; killed in the Philippines during an attempt at circumnavigation that was later completed by one of his ships

Answer 3

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 4

won a bloody trade war with Muslim merchants and defeated a large Arab fleet to establish Portuguese control of the Indian Ocean

Answer 4

Pedro Cabral

Question 5

Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico

Answer 5

Hernan Cortes

Question 6

Ruler of the Aztecs at the time Cortes conquered

Answer 6

Montezuma II

Question 7

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru

Answer 7

Francisco Pizarro

Question 8

Ruler of the Incas at the time Pizarro conquered

Answer 8

Atahualpa

Question 9

English navigator who claimed land for the Dutch in North America

Answer 9

Henry Hudson

Question 10

French explorer of the St. Lawrence River

Answer 10

Jacques Cartier

Question 11

Mapmaker who founded Quebec for the French

Answer 11

Samuel de Champlain

Question 12

Navigator who founded Newfoundland for England

Answer 12

John Cabot

Question 13

English sea captain who raided Spanish ships and became the first English sailor to circumnavigate the globe

Answer 13

Francis Drake