Midterm 62-92 Flashcards
Name the explorer whose crew traveled around the world
Magellan
Name the Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztecs
Hernando Cortez
Name the Spanish explorer who defeated the Incans
Francisco Pizarro
Name the French explorer who discovered the St Lawrence River.
Jacques Cartier
Name the French explorer who discovered 3 large lakes and became known as the father of New France
Champlain
Name the group that founded Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans
Name the colony that john smith helped in 1607
Jamestown
What cash crop helped to make Jamestown a profitable colony
Tobacco
A colonial ruler who represented the Spanish King was a _______
Viceroy
Large country estates and Spanish colonies were called _________
Hacienda
Poor neighborhoods and South America colonies were called ________
Barrios
Name the Venezuelan who liberated Venezuela and Columbia, sometimes called the George Washington of South America
Simon Bolivar
Name the king of France who established an absolute monarchy that became a model for the rest of Europe
Louis the 14th (XIV)
Name the ruler who turned Vienna into an important center for the arts in the 1700s
Maria Theresa
Who developed a strong monarchy in Russia?
Catherine the Great
Father of modern chemistry
Lavoisier
Scientists who developed a smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner
English astronomer who predicted the return of a comet that was consequently named after him
Edmond Halley
Who theorized that the earth revolves around the sun?
Copernicus
Who used the telescope to confirm that the earth orbits around the sun?
Galileo
Empiricism is a philosophy that man can only find knowledge through _________
Experience
Bougainville explored for what country?
France
Captain Cook colonized for what country?
England
What explorer named the Solomon Islands?
Alvaro de Mendana
Name all three regions that Abel Tasman explored
Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Holland (Australia)
On what group of islands was James Cook killed?
Hawaii
Who was the first governor of Australia?
Arthur Phillip
Group of islands named after the appearance of its dark skinned inhabitants and includes Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, and Fiji
Melanesia
Group of islands whose name means “many islands”
Polynesia
Group of islands whose name means small lands
Micronesia
The Cape of Good Hope is located at the southern tip of what continent?
Africa
