The Age of Exploration

Question 0

Astrolabe

Answer 0

Instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars

Question 1

Cartographer

Answer 1

Mapmaker

Question 2

Caravel

Answer 2

Improved type of sailing ship in the 1400s

Question 3

Scurvy

Answer 3

Disease caused by lack of vitamin C in ones diet

Question 4

Conquistador

Answer 4

Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas in the 1500s and 1600s

Question 5

Plantation

Answer 5

Large estate run by an owner/overseer and worked by laborers who live there

Question 6

Inflation

Answer 6

Rapid rise in prices linked to the sharp increase in the amount of money available

Question 7

Entrepreneur

Answer 7

Person who assumes financial risks in hopes of making profit

Question 8

Mercantilism

Answer 8

Policy for a country to export more goods than they import

Question 9

Tariff

Answer 9

Tax on imported goods

Question 10

Capitalism

Answer 10

Investment of money to make profit

Question 11

Columbus (3)

Answer 11

• set sail from Spain in 1492
• landed in the Bahamas
• thought he was in India

Question 12

Magellan (3)

Answer 12

• Spain, 1519-1522
• first to circumnavigate the world
• gave the Pacific ocean it’s current name

Question 13

Balboa (2)

Answer 13

• first to see the Pacific Ocean and western side of South America
• Spain,1510-1513

Question 14

Dias (2)

Answer 14

• named Cape of Good Hope

- Portugal 1487- 1488

Question 15

Da Gama (3)

Answer 15

• explored Eastern coast of Africa
• turned back when crew developed scurvy
• Portugal 1497-1499

Question 16

Cabot (2)

Answer 16

• found Newfoundland

- England, 1497

Question 17

Cartier (2)

Answer 17

• France, 1534-1535

- explored Canada (Quebec) and St. Lawrence River

Question 18

Hudson

Answer 18

• the Netherlands, 1609

- discovered Hudson River and Hudson Bay

Question 19

What foods were brought to Europe from the Americas? (5)

Answer 19

Tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, corn, and potato

Question 20

What foods were brought from Europe, Africa, and Asia to the Americas? (9)

Answer 20

Wheat, grapes, sugar, bananas, pigs, goats, chickens, cows, horses

Question 21

European exploration of the Americas resulted in…. (3)

Answer 21

• world population growth (due to new foods)
• migration of people and ideas
• Native American population decline

Question 22

A commercial revolution (3)

Answer 22

• inflation due to population growth and increase if silver and gold
• capitalism
• new businesses, such as the Joint Stock Company, were formed

Question 23

Women’s chief role was as….

Answer 23

Wife and mother

Question 24

Who conquered the Aztecs and when?

Answer 24

Hernan Cortés in 1521

Question 25

Leader of the Aztecs

Answer 25

Montezuma

Question 26

Who conquered the Incas?

Answer 26

Francisco Pizarro

Question 27

Incan leader?

Answer 27

Atahuaipa

Question 28

Reasons for victory against the Native Americans (4)

Answer 28

• superior military technology
• division and discontent among Native Americans
• diseas
• belief system (disasters marked end of the world)

Question 29

What were the cash crops in the Americas?

Answer 29

• sugar
• coffee
• tobacco