Lesson 1
What is technology? (Definition)
The use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something.
What is a narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas?
An isthmus
What was the "Reformation"?
A Christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church.
What is a mutiny?
A rebellion
Which explorer was America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is an agreement between countries called?
A treaty
Define: Counter-Reformation
A time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways.
Which explorer claimed land for England and Holland?
Henry Hudson
What were most explorers looking for?
Wealth and Land
What was the Reconquista?
The movement to make Spain all Catholic; also called the Reconquest.
Name at least one new technology that explorers used.
Compass, Astrolabe, Ships
What was a conquistador?
Any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s.
Which explorer claimed land for France?
Jacques Cartier
Why did missionaries go to the Americas?
to spread the Catholic religion
Who sponsored Columbus's expedition in 1492?
Spain
Who lead the first expedition to sail around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
What empire did Hernando Cortes conquer in Mexico?
Aztec
Verrazano, Cartier, and Hudson all searched for the __________ in North America.
Northwest Passage
The waterway in North America that was thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean was called __________ __________.
the Northwest Passage
Why did Columbus sail west from Europe?
He was trying to find a more direct water route to Asia.
Explorers proved that __________ were new continents, not part of Asia.
the Americas
Francisco Pizarro took control of which empire in Peru?
the Inca Empire
During Henry Hudson's last voyage, what did his crew do?
Hudson's crew mutinied and set him adrift at sea.
Who reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?
Vikings