Exploration

Question 1

Government hired pirates.

Answer 1

Privateers

Question 2

The right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area.

Answer 2

Encomiendas

Question 3

Resistance

Answer 3

Immunity

Question 4

People born in Spain

Answer 4

Peninsulares

Question 5

Conquerors

Answer 5

Conquistadors

Question 6

People of Native American and European descent.

Answer 6

Mestizos

Question 7

Large estates run by an owner or an owners operator

Answer 7

Plantations

Question 8

Which group of people did Cortex conquer?

A. Incas
B. Indies
C. Aztecs
D. Mestizos

Answer 8

C. Aztecs

Question 9

Which group of people did Pizarro conquer?

A. Incas
B. Indies
C. Aztecs
D. Spanish

Answer 9

A. Incas

Question 10

Which explorer led four ships around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497?

A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Vasco da Gama
C. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Christopher Columbus

Answer 10

B. Vasco da Gama

Question 11

Which of the following explorers’ crew are most commonly known as the first men to circumnavigate?

A. Cartier
B. Da Gama
C. Balboa
D. Magellan

Answer 11

D. Magellan

Question 12

Which of the following explorers is seen to be the first man to reach the Pacific Ocean, which he called the “South Sea”?

A. Cartier
B. Magellan
C. Balboa
D. Da Dama

Answer 12

C. Balboa

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE

Privateers were business men who bought and sold African Slaves.

Answer 13

FALSE

Question 14

TRUE OR FALSE

Hernando Cortez and his group of around 600 men landed in Mexico in 1619.

Answer 14

FALSE

Question 15

TRUE OR FALSE

Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1532.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

TRUE OR FALSE

In the 1500’s the wealth of the Americas helped make Spain the most powerful country in Europe.

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

TRUE OR FALSE

A lateen is a ship that combined European square sails and Arab triangular sails.

Answer 17

FALSE

Question 18

Who set up a school for exploration in Portugal?

Answer 18

Henry the Navigator

Question 19

Who was the first to circumnavigate?

Answer 19

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 20

What was the reconquering of Spain by the Christians?

Answer 20

Reconquista

Question 21

Who sailed across the Atlantic ocean and hacked a passage through the tropical forests of Panama reaching the South Sea?

Answer 21

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 22

Who led four ships around the cape of good hope and reached the spice port of Calicut?

Answer 22

Vasco Da Gama

Question 23

Who in 1488, sailed around the tip of Africa, opening up a sea route to Asia?

Answer 23

Bartholomew Dias

Question 24

Who in 1492, sailed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean?

Answer 24

Christopher Columbus

Question 25

Agreement among the people.

Answer 25

Alliances