Early Exploration
Marco Polo
What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?
a. Straits of Magellan
b. Cape of Good Hope
c. Atlantis
b. Cape of Good Hope
Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?
a. the Panama isthmus
b. The West Indies
c. the East Indies
c. The East Indies
What was the first English Colony in North America?
Roanoke Island
What was the name given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spanish set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?
a. chinampas
b. encomiendas
c. empanadas
b. encomiendas
Navigators used a magnetic compass to know where they were going and an _______________ to know where they were.
astrolabe
What important route did Dias's discovery lead to?
a. The North Pole
b. a westward route to the Spice Islands
c. a route to the Indian Ocean
c. a route to the Indian Ocean
Why did Columbus call the people he encountered, "Indians"?
He thought he had reached the East Indies
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
a. Jamestown, Virginia
b. New Amsterdam, New York
c. Victoria, Canada
a. Jamestown Virginia
Where are the straits of Magellan?
a. Where the Panama Canal is now
b. In Riley's backyard
c. near the tip of South America
c. near the tip of South America
Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400's
a. Vasco da Gama
b. Prince Henry the Navigator
c. Iron Man
b. Prince Henry the Navigator
a. the eastern coast of Africa
b. North Carolina
c. Caribbean Islands
a. the eastern coast of Africa
What body of water did Vasco Nunez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro?
Double the points if you give the first name he gave it.
The Pacific Ocean
Bonus- The South Sea
Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the the present-day United States?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Giovanni da Verrazano
c. Riveriaro de Muhlenkampo
b. Giovanni da Verrazano
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
a. Give everyone the recipe for Tortilla Soup
b. legalize the slave trade
c. divide the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
C. divide the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
Vocabulary:
What is a mapmaker called?
cartographer
True or False
Although Cabral set sail for India, he accidentally ended up reaching the Canary Islands first?
(If it's false, double points for the correct answer)
False
Brazil
Which explorer did not visit North America?
a. Ferdinand Magellan
b. Henry Hudson
c. Christopher Columbus
a. Ferdinand Magellan
Which trade got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France?
a. fur trade
b. sugar plantations
c. jolly rancher farms
a. fur trade
Vocabulary:
the practice of controlling and settling an area with people from another country.
colonization
Vocabulary
What is a situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of the supply of a good or service?
monopoly
Vocabulary:
to travel completely around something (such as Earth), especially by water
circumnavigate
Vocabulary
a sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America
Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?
a. Canada around Montreal
b. Lake Superior
c. The Andes Mountains
a. Canada around Montreal
a. Hispaniola
b. Balboa
c. Las Casas
c .Las Casas