World Explorers
Last Voyage of Columbus
Historiography
Cortez
The Americas
100
What world explorer discovered Cape of Good Hope?
Who is Bartolomeu Diaz?
100
Who was the first European to travel to China? Who was the person he was searching for that didn't exist?
Who is Marco Polo, looking for (king) Prestor John.
100
What man was responsible for the Great Man Theory? What did it say?
Who is Plutarch; the character of men changes history.
100
What was the disease that ravaged Aztec nation?
What is smallpox?
100
What was interesting about the Caribs?
What is, they were cannibals?
200
Who was the first explorer to sail into Calicut?
Who is de Gama?
200
What is the name of the Moras city that fell to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492?
What is Granada?
200
Karl Marx talks about the conflict between what class?
What is the proletariat? (Means of production & workers; conflict between aristocracies; economics)
200
Who did the Aztecs think Cortex was originally?
Who is the ancient god, Quetzalcoatl?
200
What did Diaz and the other conquistadors find completely disgusting about the Aztecs?
What is their human sacrificing?
300
What Spanish explorer died in the Philippines and the crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Who is Magellan?
300
What "instrument" did Ferdinand and Isabella use to control the Spanish empire?
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
300
What did Hegel call his method of history?
What is dialectic?
300
What island becomes the base of Spanish operation in this time?
What is Hispaniola? (Dominican Republic & Haiti)
300
What Indian culture inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula?
Who are the Mayans?
400
The new world is mistakenly named after this man:
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
What was the single greatest threat to sailors in this world?
What are shipworms?
400
Who said history is written by the winners?
Who are the radicals?
400
Who was the girl who helped Cortez translate?
Who is Marina?
400
What food did the Indians provide Columbus [with]?
What is cassava?
500
Balboa was the first European to see...
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
What island id Columbus find himself shipwrecked [on]? Who was the guy who swam and saved everyone's lives?
What is Jamaica; Diego Mendez.
500
What do we call the idea that geography is the determining force in history?
What is the Turner Thesis?
500
What did the Spanish term their retreat from the Aztecs? What is the Aztec capital?
What is Noche Triste; Tenochtitlan
500
Who was the guide who helped Columbus?
Who is Yomba?
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