Unit 4 MKP

Question 1

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 1

1450-1500
-Portuguese explorer
-sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
-discovered the Cape of Good Hope

Question 2

Christopher Columbus

Answer 2

1451-1506
-explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
-opened up the Americas to the European exploration
-sailed for the Spanish crown in an attempt to find trade route to the East Indies

Question 3

Prince Henry

Answer 3

1394-1460
-central figure in the early days of the Portuguese empire and main maritime exploration initiator
-sponsored voyages and established a school of navigation

Question 4

Hernan Cortes

Answer 4

1485-1547
-Spanish conquistador who led an expedition into the Aztec Empire
-later caused the fall of the empire

Question 5

Fransisco Pizarro

Answer 5

1471-1541
-Spanish conquistador in South America who conquered the Incan Empire

Question 6

Vasco de Gama

Answer 6

1460s-1524
-Portuguese explorer
-commanded the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India

Question 7

Bartolomeu de las Casas

Answer 7

1481-1566
-Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar
-chronicled the first decades of Spanish colonization of the West Indies

Question 8

Jacques Cartier

Answer 8

-French explorer
-first European to describe and map the gulf of the St. Lawrence

Question 9

Philip II

Answer 9

1527-1598
-King of Spain at apex of empire
-considered model for absolute monarchy

Question 10

Dona Marina

Answer 10

1496-1529
-native woman who was key in Spanish conquest of Aztecs
-acted as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernan Cortes

Question 11

Charles V

Answer 11

1500-1558
-Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of Spanish empire
-brought together two empires

Question 12

King Nzinga/Afonso I

Answer 12

16th century
-ruler of the Kingdom of the Kongo during height of Portuguese slave trade
-converted to Christianity and adopted some European ideas during his reign

Question 13

Queen Nzinga

Answer 13

1538-1663
-queen of Ndongo and madam a in modern-day Angola
-known for political and diplomatic skills
-struggled against Portuguese invastion

Question 14

Metacom

Answer 14

-chief of Wampanoag people
-wanted to live in harms with puritan colonists
-forced to conflict with them

Question 15

Queen Nanny

Answer 15

18th century
-leader of Jamaican Maroons
-fought and won guerrilla war against the British

Question 16

Pugachev

Answer 16

-Russian Cossack leader of a popular rebellion against Catherine the Great
-rebellion failed and caused serfs more trouble