World Studies - Chapter 5 test

Question 1

Who travelled to the far east and recorded his experiences and journey?

Answer 1

Marco Polo

Question 2

Why were spices useful for trading?

Answer 2

It was easy to transport and made food tastier

Question 3

Give 4 motives for exploration and a brief explanation of each

Answer 3

1. economic - they wanted to find wealth
2. glory - they wanted to praise from men
3. political - they gained motivation from Monarchs
4. religious - they tried to spread roman Catholicism

Question 4

What was the name of the ship used for exploration and why was it unique?

Answer 4

Carvel, it had many advancements like it used square and triangular sails and could travel on open sea

Question 5

What was the sailors most useful tool?

Answer 5

It was instruments like the compass

Question 6

Explain dead reckoning?

Answer 6

They estimated their location and speed, then amed the compass

Question 7

Who developed a navigational school? Where was he from?

Answer 7

Prince Henry the Navigator, he was from Portugal

Question 8

How did the Aztecs build their capital Tenochtitlan?

Answer 8

they built it on islands on a lake by crushing plants and mud to make it above the water

Question 9

What was built to protect them from people coming into the city?

Answer 9

a bridge that can be raided to keep out invators

Question 10

How did they expand their empire?

Answer 10

they defeated and enslaved other city-states

Question 11

How did the Aztecs choose their king?

Answer 11

The aztecs elected their king

Question 12

How did the Incas expand their empire?

Answer 12

They made alliances and built friendships

Question 13

What effect did the Inca king’s power have on the people?

Answer 13

They thought he was a god and they became passive followers

Question 14

What were the three “moral precepts” that governed Inca behavior (in english)?

Answer 14

1. do not steal
2. do not lie
3. do not be lazy

Question 15

What was the language of the Inca?

Answer 15

Quechua

Question 16

The Inca were referred to as children of who?

Answer 16

children of the sun

Question 17

Where was the Incan capital?

Answer 17

Cuzco

Question 18

What were their buildings covered with and why?

Answer 18

they built building with stone and they were covered with sheets of gold

Question 19

Who was Bartolomeu Dias? Where was he from? What did he accomplish?

Answer 19

He was a sailor, he was from Portugal and he finally turned the center that opened sea trade with India

Question 20

Who was Vasco Da Gama? Where was he from? What did he accomplish?

Answer 20

He was a sailor, protugal, he made it to India

Question 21

What was the name of the southern tip of Africa that the explorers rounded?

Answer 21

The cape of good Hope

Question 22

What disease did many men come down with while at sea? What caused it?

Answer 22

They kept getting scurvy, a disease that was caused by lack of vitamin C

Question 23

Who was Afonso de Albuquerque? What did he establish and where?

Answer 23

he was an exporer, he established a trading center in India

Question 24

WHo was Francis Xavier?

Answer 24

He was a Jesuit Missionary in Japan

Question 25

Who requested the Line of Demarcation? Who set it up?

Answer 25

Spain and Q and K, Pope Alexander Vi made it

Question 26

Which country was not happy with the line? What was done?

Answer 26

The Portugues, the Treaty of Tordesilla took place

Question 27

What husband and wife financed the explorations of Christopher Columbus?

Answer 27

King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 28

Where did Columbus land and what effect did his livestock have on the Taino people?

Answer 28

He landed on the island of San Salvador, they carried things like small pox and it was devastating to the people

Question 29

Who was Hernando Cortest and who did he conquer?

Answer 29

He is a conquistador from Spain and he conquered the Aztecs

Question 30

Why was his mission illegal?

Answer 30

Governor Velazquez told him not to go

Question 31

When Cortez first met Montezuma, what 2 things did Montezuma do?

Answer 31

He understood that they had superior weapons and he gave Corte’s a sample of their wealth

Question 32

When Montezuma tried to convince his people to trust and listen to Cortez what did they do to him?

Answer 32

They stoned him

Question 33

After conquering the city, what did Cortez build on their temple? What new city was made?

Answer 33

A Catholic Church, it was called Mexico City

Question 34

What women helped Cortez by translating what he said to Montezuma?

Answer 34

Malintzin

Question 35

What was the Spanish justification for destroying the capital and conquering the people?

Answer 35

Human sacrifice was the reason

Question 36

Who conquered the Incas and what did he do to their king? What was the king’s name?

Answer 36

Fransisco Pizarro, he took captive their King Atahualpa and made them fill a room with gold to get him back but he killed him anyways

Question 37

What was the name of the document that gave them permission to do what they did to the natives? What did he say they had the right to do?

Answer 37

The Requerimiento, it said that God made St. Peter and his heirs, the pope, rule over all thearth