Information from ________ assisted mapmakers in creating more accurate land and sea maps
Who are the explorers and/or cartographers
100
This conquistador landed on the east coast of present day Mexico in 1519
Who is Francisco Pizarro
100
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain on what three ships?
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
100
What two things did the French establish in Americas?
What are fishing and fur trading
100
Columbus sailed in the name of this country
What is Spain
200
Beginning in the A.D. 600s this religion spread in the Middle East and Africa
What is Islam
200
Where did Christopher Columbus think he was when he hit land in 1492
What is India or the Indonesian Islands
200
This conquistador conquered the Inca after the Spanish executed the Inca's ruler
Who is Pizarro
200
England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover a ___________ to Asia
What is a Northwest Passage
200
Cortes sailed in the name of this country
What is Spain
300
What did England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover in their explorations?
What is a northwest passage to Asia
300
what is a point of land that sticks out into the water, much like a peninsula
What is a cape
300
This conquistador quickly conquered the Aztec people of Mexico
Who is Cortes
300
Name three things that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange
What are; (any three will be excepted) people, animals, ideas, plants, foods, diseases
300
Cabot sailed in the name of this country
What is England
400
What event lead to the Renaissance Period and the Great Explorations?
What are the Crusades
400
This country took the lead in finding a trade route to India
Who is Pourtugal
400
Explorers Hernando de Soto and Francisco Coronado searched for this mythological site
What is The Seven Cities of Gold,or the Seven Cities of Cibola
400
A sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing Protestant churches
What is Reformation
400
Verrazano sailed in the name of this country
What is France
500
An instrument used to plan a course using the four cardinal directions; north, south, east, and west
What is a compass
500
This is an instrument used to navigate using the stars
What is an astrolabe
500
Bartolome de Las Casa spoke out against the enslavement of Native Americans and suggested people from this continent should be used instead, a suggestions he regretted later
What is Africa
500
Which English monarch began to change his countries religion from Catholic to Protestant