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Vocabulary
100
Ferdinand Magellan died in this year, one year before the expedition reached home.
What is 152?
100
Juan Pone De Leon and Ferdinand Magellan sailed for this country.
What is Spain?
100
His expedition was undertaken to find a mythical fountain of youth.
Who is Juan Ponce De Leon?
100
Killed by natives on an expedition in the Caribbean.
Who is Giovanni Da Verrazano?
100
- Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
- Overriding concern with ethnicity.
- belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
The date the Portugueses first explored Brazil
What is 1500?
200
Sailed for Spain and Portugal.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
His explorations were the genesis of French claims in Canada.
Who is Jacque Cartier?
200
Made several voyages along the eastern coast of Central and South America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
The rebellion of a ship's crew against its captain.
What is mutiny?
300
John Cabot's voyage of this year provided grounds for the English to Claim North America.
What is 1497?
300
Sailed for Portugal only.
Who are Vasco Da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral, and Francis Xavier?
300
Establish Portuguese control of the African passage to India.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
300
First when to India, then to Japan.
Who is Francis Xavier?
300
The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees up to 90 degrees
What is Latitude?
400
The expedition to sail around the world.
What is 1519?
400
Sailed for England only.
Who are John Cabot and Francis Drake?
400
His voyage convinced the English monarchy that the New World was both real and valuable.
Who is John Cabot?
1000 pt bonus.
A meridian used as a reference line from which longitude east and west is measured.
400
Organized expeditions in the 1530s in search of a Northeast passage to China.
Who is Sebastian Cabot?
400
The angular distance measured on a great circle of reference from the intersection of the adopted zero meridian with this reference circle to the similar intersection of the meridian passing through the object
What is longitude?
500
Cartier sailed to Northeastern North America.
What is 1534?
500
Sailed for France.
Who are Giovanni Da Verrazano and Jacques Cartier?
500
Roman Catholic Jesuit missionary.
Who is Francis Xavier?
500
Second to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Francis Drake?
500
The imaginary great circle around the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles and perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation. It divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Equator?