World History Test Ch. 16

Question 1

Compass (From Who?)

Answer 1

China - Handynasty

Question 2

Caravel

Answer 2

A light, fast sailing ship - can carry 130 tons of cargo

Question 3

Vasco de Gama

Answer 3

Portuguese explorer - sailed to India around Africa - Found porcelain and spices

Question 4

Pedro Cabral

Answer 4

Claimed Brazil for Portugal

Question 5

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 5

Set sail west to find and all water route to Asia

Question 6

Circumnavigate

Answer 6

To sail completely around the water - proved Earth was round

Question 7

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 7

Rounded the tip of South America - Explored the West Coast of North America

Question 8

Jacques Cartier

Answer 8

Sailed into the St. Lawrence River - claimed all the land along the river as the province of New France

Question 9

Encomienda System

Answer 9

Native Americans suffered overworking and mistreatment

Question 10

European Diseases

Answer 10

Native Americans had no resistance, millions died - Smallpox, tuberculosis, measles were unknown in the Americas

Question 11

Moctezuma II

Answer 11

Aztec emperor - ruled much of Mexico

Question 12

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 12

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition to Peru - conquered the Inca Empire

Question 13

Treaty of Tardesillas

Answer 13

A treaty signed in 1494 that drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic Ocean

Question 14

Rene-Robert la Salle

Answer 14

Claimed the Gulf of Mexico for France

Question 15

Plantations

Answer 15

The shortage of labor in America

Question 16

Middle Passage

Answer 16

Voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to North America and the West Indies

Question 17

Astrolabe (From Who?)

Answer 17

Ancient Greece

Question 18

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 18

First European to sail around the Southern tip of Africa - Cape of Good Hope

Question 19

Prince Henry

Answer 19

Established a small court (school) - Sent an expedition West, to explore the western coast of Africa

Question 20

Vasco de Balbea

Answer 20

Led an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama - First European to see the Pacific Ocean

Question 20

Columbus (Why Indians?)

Answer 20

Difficult to dispute - No maps showed any land mass between Europe and Asia

Question 21

John Cabot

Answer 21

Sailed from England and explored present day Canada - gave England a claim in the New World

Question 22

Henry Hudson

Answer 22

Claimed land for the Dutch along the Atlantic Coast of North America

Question 23

Northwest Passage

Answer 23

Sea lane between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Question 24

Hernan Cortes

Answer 24

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition to Mexico defeating the Aztec Empire and conquering Mexico for Spain

Question 25

Conquistador

Answer 25

A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

Question 26

Malinche

Answer 26

A translator for Cortes

Question 27

Viceroys

Answer 27

Officials who ruled Spain’s American Empire

Question 28

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 28

Founded Quebec - the first permanent French settlement in the Americas

Question 29

Jamestown

Answer 29

Virginia - 1607

Question 30

Triangular Trade System

Answer 30

Trading network that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas and Africa

Question 31

African Diaspora

Answer 31

The dispersal of people of Africa descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade

Question 32

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 32

Italian explorer and navigator - bestowing the New World, America

Question 33

Why the slave trade started??

Answer 33

European powers wanted cheap labor to work on plantations and in other businesses in Americas