Module 2

Question 1

Leif Eriksson

Answer 1

Son of Erik the Red, was also an adventurer.

Question 2

Henry the Navigator

Answer 2

Henry the Navigator was responsible for advances that would make an exploration more successful he founded the school of navigation.

Question 3

Astrolabe

Answer 3

A device that enabled Navigators to learn their ships location by charting the position of the Stars.

Question 4

Caravels

Answer 4

Ships that used triangular sails to sail Against the Wind, and had Rudders to improve steering.

Question 5

Christopher Columbus

Answer 5

Christopher Columbus, a sailor from Genoa, Italy. he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 6

Line of Demarcation

Answer 6

Boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World.

Question 7

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 7

A treaty between Spain and Portugal that moved The line of demarcation

Question 8

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 8

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese Navigator, set out with the Spanish Fleet to sail down the east coast of South America.

Question 9

circumnavigate

Answer 9

To travel all the way around the globe.

Question 10

Columbian Exchange

Answer 10

The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Question 11

Conquistadors

Answer 11

A Spanish Soldier and explorer who led military Expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

Question 12

Hernan Cortes

Answer 12

Conquistador Hernan Cortes left the island of Cuba to sail to present day Mexico in 1519.

Question 13

Moctezuma II

Answer 13

West King

Question 14

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 14

Another Spanish Conquistador

Question 15

encomienda system

Answer 15

A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or demand for labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity.

Question 16

Plantations

Answer 16

A large farm that usually specialized in a growing one kind of crop for profit.

Question 17

Bartolome de Las Casas

Answer 17

A priest that tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

Question 18

Protestant Reformation

Answer 18

A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church.

Question 19

Protestants

Answer 19

Reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church.

Question 20

Spanish Armada

Answer 20

A large Spanish Fleet defeated by England and 1588

Question 21

Northwest Passage

Answer 21

A non-existent pass through North America that early explorers search for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.

Question 22

Jacques Carter

Answer 22

A French sailor that led Francis next major exploration of North America.

Question 23

Charter

Answer 23

An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.