Chapter 2 Packet questions

Question 0

What is a Caravel?

Answer 0

A small, fast, ship with a wide brow

Question 1

What is Classical?

Answer 1

Relating to Ancient Greece and Rome

Question 2

What is a strait?

Answer 2

A narrow passageway connecting two larger bodies of water

Question 3

What are pueblo?

Answer 3

A home or community of homes built by Native Americans

Question 4

What is a plantation?

Answer 4

A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there

Question 5

What is the Northwest Passage?

Answer 5

A water route to Asia through North America sought by European explorers

Question 6

What is the Renaissance?

Answer 6

A period of intellectual and artistic creativity, c. 1300-1600

Question 7

What is a pilgrimage?

Answer 7

A journey to a holy land

Question 8

What does circumnavigate mean?

Answer 8

To sail around the world

Question 9

What is a mission?

Answer 9

A religious settlement

Question 10

What is mercantilism?

Answer 10

The theory that a state’s or nation’s power depended on its wealth

Question 11

What is technology?

Answer 11

The application of scientific discoveries to practical use

Question 12

What is a mosque?

Answer 12

A Muslim house of worship

Question 13

What is a conquistador?

Answer 13

Spanish explorer in the Americas in the 1500s

Question 14

What is a presidio?

Answer 14

Spanish fort in the Americas built to protect mission settlement

Question 15

What is the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 15

An exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas

Question 16

What is an astrolabe?

Answer 16

An instrument used by sailors to observe positions of the stars

Question 17

What is the line of demarcation?

Answer 17

An imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to South Pole dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal

Question 18

What is a tribute?

Answer 18

Money paid for protection

Question 19

What is an encomienda?

Answer 19

A system of rewarding conquistadors with tracts of land and the right to tax and demand labor form the Native Americans who lived on the land

Question 20

Who was Christopher Columbus?

Answer 20

Born in Genoa, Italy, thought he could get to Asia by sailing west, Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, trying to go to Asia, landed in America instead, Traveled as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as the Gold Coast, financed by Queen Isabella of Spain, agreed that Christopher had to spread Christianity to any lands he found, and had to give Spain some of the riches he gained

Question 21

Who was Cabeza de Vaca?

Answer 21

A Spanish conquistador who died trying to find gold and the “fountain of youth”

Question 22

Who was Hernando de Soto?

Answer 22

Spanish conquistador who lead the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River

Question 23

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

Answer 23

A Portuguese mariner to lead an expedition of 5 ships, headed west across the Atlantic, and then south along the eastern coast of South America, found Strait of Magellan, named the Pacific Ocean

Question 24

Who was Henry Hudson?

Answer 24

Found and named the Hudson River and Hudson Bay, sailed as far north up the Hudson to present day Albany

Question 25

Who was Jacques Cartier?

Answer 25

French explorer, sailed up St. Lawrence river hoping it would lead to the Pacific Ocean, got as far as the Huron village of Hochelaga, named Montreal

Question 26

Who was Hernan Cortes?

Answer 26

A Spanish conquistador that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland

Question 27

Who was Samuel de Chaplian?

Answer 27

Founded Quebec, in what is Canada, also found Lake Champlain

Question 28

Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?

Answer 28

Made first Spanish landing on mainland of North America, arriving in the east coast of present day Florida, also looked for gold and “fountain of youth”