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100

The famous work Description of the World was about whose adventures?

Marco Polo

100

Where did the Protestant Reformation occur?

All throughout Europe

100

What is the name of the body of water which some historians think people crossed via a land bridge from Asia to North America?

Bering Strait

100

Dutch explorer who claimed New Netherland

Henry Hudson

100

Englishman who circumnavigated the globe and whom the Spanish viewed as a pirate

Francis Drake

100

What country was Spain's earliest competitor to reach the Far East and make early claims to new lands?

Portugal

100
What did the French call the region that is modern-day Canada?

New France

200

Which European nation first discovered a sea route to Asia?

Portugal 

200

How did Pope Alexander VI divide the world for exploration?

West - Spain

East - Portugal 

200

Which people built their capital city on the site of modern Mexico City?

Aztecs

200

Italian explorer who sailed for Spain

Christopher Columbus

200

Spanish explorer who named Florida 

Juan Ponce de Leon

200

What ruler experienced defeat with the destruction of an armada?

Phillip II

200

Because long Canadian winters reduced farming capacity, what became a profitable business activity of Frenchmen?

fur trading

300

Which merchants controlled the overland routes to Asia?

Muslim

300

Who was Geneva's most influential teacher and was instrumental in the Protestant Reformation?

John Calvin 

300

What was the name given to the peoples of the Adena nd Hopewell cultures that developed in what is now called the Midwest?

Mound Builders

300

Portuguese explorer who sailed to India and obtained a profitable cargo of spices

Vasco da Gama

300

Italian explorer who sailed for England

John Cabot

300

What is the oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in the present United States. 

St. Augustine

400

What economic system was based on building national power by amassing a surplus of hard money (i.e. gold and other precious metals)?

Mercantilism 

400

Which German monk was influential in starting the Protestant Reformtion?

Martin Luther

400

Who was the king of the Aztecs who thought Cortes might be an Aztec god?

Montezuma

400

Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River

Hernando de Soto 

400

Spanish explorer whose expedition discovered the Grand Canyon

Francisco Coronado

400

Who was the one-legged governor of New Netherland?

Peter Stuyvesant

500

Name 3 innovations that made it possible for explorers to extend their travels to the New World. 

compass

astrolabe

caravel

500

How did the Protestant Reformation affect New World settlement?

Rivalry between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism motivated English, French, and Spanish explorers. They also saw the discovery of these new lands as an opportunity to spread their influence. 

500

What factor most determined the type of housing used by the various Indian tribes?

geographic environment

500

What was so remarkable about Magellan's crew's accomplisment?

The crew's accomplishment in circumnavigating the world was remarkable because it confirmed that one could reach Asia by sailing west around the tip of South America. It also revealed the girth of the globe and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. 

500

Who was Bartolomeu Dias?

explored for Portugal 

500

Why were the Spanish and the English bitter rivals?

Name at least two of the following:

-economic competitors

-mercantilism

- English Sea Dogs robbed Spanish vessels

- Religious rivalry

- Spanish Armada

500

Englishman who financed settlements in the New World

Walter Raleigh

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