pace number 1085

Question 1

Who was the first recorded white child born in North America?

Answer 1

Snorri Karlsefnisson

Question 2

Who explored what is now Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas?

Answer 2

Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Question 3

Who landed on shores of Brazil after being blown off course?

Answer 3

Pedro Cabral

Question 4

Who was commissioned by Spain to make a voyage completely around the world?

Answer 4

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 5

Who discovered and explored the St. Lawrence river until stopped by rapids?

Answer 5

Jacques Cartier

Question 6

Who called the Pacific Ocean the South Sea?

Answer 6

Captain-General Nunez de Balboa

Question 7

Who discovered America in 1492?

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

Who conquered the Inca Empire through greed and deceit?

Answer 8

Captain-General Pizzaro

Question 9

Who was the Aztec emperor when Captain-General Cortes arrived at Tenochtitlan?

Answer 9

Montezuma II

Question 10

Who discovered the Mississippi River?

Answer 10

Hernando de Soto

Question 11

Which two men explored the Mississippi River area in 1673?

Answer 11

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet

Question 12

Who gave Portugal a claim to the Americas?

Answer 12

Joao Vaz Corte-Real

Question 13

Who discovered Florida while searching for a fountain of youth?

Answer 13

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 14

Who discovered and named the huge Louisiana territory?

Answer 14

Sieur de La Salle

Question 15

Who was the first European known to explore part of South America?

Answer 15

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 16

Who was the Inca ruler captured by Spanish on November 15, 1531?

Answer 16

Atahualpa

Question 17

Who appointed a civil governor-general and six priests to administrate the colony of Brazil?

Answer 17

King John II

Question 18

How did the ancestors of today’s American Indians come to the New World?

Answer 18

they came across the Bering Strait

Question 19

According to the time line in the PACE, when did the indians begin migrating to America?

Answer 19

shortly after the flood

Question 20

What type of settlement was excavated by archaeologists at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada in the early 1960s?

Answer 20

a Norse settlement

Question 21

Where was a Norse settlement discovered in the 1960s?

Answer 21

Newfoundland

Question 22

The first fully recorded European discovery and colonization of the Americas was carried out by who?

Answer 22

the Norsemen

Question 23

Which Caribbean islands did Christopher Columbus explore?

Answer 23

Hispaniola and Cuba

Question 24

What were the names of Christopher Columbus’ ships?

Answer 24

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

Question 25

In 1494 the Pope drew up a treaty establishing the Line of _____________.

Answer 25

Demarcation

Question 26

According to the Line of Demarcation treaty, all newly discovered lands would belong to Spain if they were which direction of the line?

Answer 26

west

Question 27

According to the Line of Demarcation treaty, all newly discovered lands would belong to Portugal if they were which direction of the line?

Answer 27

east

Question 28

What made it easy for the Aztecs to defend Tenochtitlan?

Answer 28

a system of causeways

Question 29

What did Captain-General Cortes call the night of fighting to escape Tenochtitlan?

Answer 29

the NIght of Sorrows

Question 30

Who discovered a water passage off the southern tip of South America?

Answer 30

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 31

The belief that there were many Old World contacts with the Americas before 1492 is supported by what?

Answer 31

legends and artifacts

Question 32

The legends of many cultures are warped and untrue, even though they may sound much like what?

Answer 32

Biblical accounts

Question 33

Norse explorers made at least three landings. What did they name the three areas?

Answer 33

Helluland, Markland, and Vinland the Good

Question 34

The three areas where the Norse landed were portions of what place?

Answer 34

North America

Question 35

Leif Eriksson's father was not pleased with his son's ________ the Norse religion.

Answer 35

departure from

Question 36

How many voyages did Christopher Columbus make to the new world?

Answer 36

four

Question 37

In 1534, Portugal divided which country into 15 land grants?

Answer 37

Brazil

Question 38

Which country explored the new world in order to find a northern passage through the new world to the far east?

Answer 38

France

Question 39

What was the main reason for France's colonization in the New World?

Answer 39

fur trading

Question 40

Why were many early American colonies failures?

Answer 40

they didn't apply Biblical principles to their undertakings