The science of getting ships from place to place is called what?
Navigation.
100
Name three things explorers brought to America.
Diseases, horses, sheep, corn, potatoes (any answers from page 87 in textbook.)
100
What is a missionary?
A person who tries to persuade people to accept new religious beliefs.
100
What is Ponce de Leon famous for?
He found Florida and named it 'La Florida' or "place of flowers."
100
Who was the first to search for the Northwest Passage?
John Cabot.
200
What was a 'caravel'?
A caravel had rectangular sails on the front and middle of the ship. The sail in the back was triangular shaped. This allowed the ship to travel faster. The caravel also had more room for cargo and flatter bottoms to float in shallow water.
200
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of people, plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean.
200
What did Spanish explorers do to some Native Americans? What does that mean?
They enslaved them. This is being forced to work without pay.
200
Who hired Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage?
The Dutch East India Company.
200
What was the Northwest Passage?
A shortcut through North America to the Pacific Ocean.
300
With travel on the Silk Road being expensive and dangerous, what did merchants decide they needed to do?
They needed to find a cheaper and faster route to get to Asia.
300
Name three places that Christopher Columbus explored.
The Bahamas, The Caribbean Sea and South America.
300
What was an encomienda?
A large area of land given to Spaniards who agreed to settle in the Americas.
300
Name two people who searched for the Northwest Passage.
John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier and Henry Hudson.
300
What happened when people came to New France?
They lived with the Native Americans and learned their customs, language, and hunting techniques. In exchange, Native Americans got weapons, tools, and money.
400
What was the Silk Road? Why was it important? What happened to it?
The Silk Road was the main trade route from China to eastern Asia. It was important because European merchants wanted to trade with Chinese merchants. The Mongolian Empire protected the road but fell in the 1400s; travelling on the Silk Road became dangerous and very expensive.
400
How did Montezuma II, the Aztec ruler, treat the Spanish explorers? What happened?
He welcomed the Spanish explorers, however they took Montezuma prisoner and demanded gold for his freedom. Eventually the Aztec were able to drive the Spanish out, but thousands later died of smallpox.
400
What happened when smallpox and measles came to the Americas?
Millions of Native Americans died.
400
How did Spanish missionaries differ from French missionaries?
Spanish missionaries wanted to change the Native Americans' religion and their way of life. French missionaries did not try to change their customs and respected their ways.
400
What is a patroon? Give one benefit of being one.
A patroon is a person who brought at least 50 people to New Netherland. They were given large pieces of land.
500
What did an astrolabe, an orienteering compass, and the sextant help sailors do? (Be specific about each tool)
The astrolabe measured the height of stars in the sky.
The orienteering compass showed the direction of travel, but only north and south.
The sextant allowed sailors to find the latitude and longitude of a location.
500
What did the Inca offer to Francisco Pizarro when he kidnapped the Inca ruler Atahualpa? What happened after he got it?
They gave Pizarro a room filled with treasure. After Pizarro received the gold and silver he killed Atahualpa and melted the gold and silver into bars to be sent to Spain.
500
Describe two ways your life would change when the Europeans arrived if you were a Native American child.
Answers will vary.
500
Why did King Henry IV send Samuel de Champlain to New France? What did he do there?
He was sent to be governor; he became an ally of the Native Americans.
500
What were European sailors looking for when they found the Americas? What were the Spanish looking for? Later, what did European explorers begin looking for?
Early European sailors were looking for a quicker trade route with Asia. The Spanish were looking for gold. European explorers later began looking for the Northwest Passage.