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Who claimed the Hudson River Valley for the Dutch?
Henry Hudson
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What happened to close the trade route between Europe and Asia?
The Turks took over Constantinople.
100
VOCABULARY -- A person who makes maps
cartographer
100
VOCABULARY -- An agreement between nations about peace, trade, or other matters
a treaty
100
Who traveled into China and the Indies with his father and uncle?
Marco Polo
200
Who claimed Florida for Spain while he was looking for the Fountain of Youth? BONUS: What was the Fountain of Youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon Bonus: If you drank its water, you would not get old
200
What explorer was the first to sail around the world?
Magellan
200
Name 2 of the 3 inventions that impressed Marco Polo that we read about? BONUS: Name the 3rd invention
compass, gunpowder, paper money
200
What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?
A printing press OR a new way to print books
200
Why did explorers search for a Northwest Passage?
They wanted to find a route to Asia.
300
Who sponsored Henry Hudson's voyage to America when he found the Hudson River Valley?
The Dutch East India Co.
300
VOCABULARY -- rebellion against the leader of one's group
mutiny
300
Why was Prince Henry known as The Navigator? BONUS: What is he sometimes called?
He set up a school to train sailors. He is called "the explorer who stayed home."
300
VOCABULARY -- Wide mouth of a river where ocean tide flows in
an estuary
300
VOCABULARY -- Name of Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s.
Conquistador
400
What do we now call what Bartholomeu sighted on his journey around the southern tip of Africa?
The Cape of Good Hope
400
Who (what group of people) ruled an empire in South America?
The Incas
400
Who or what is Machu Picchu?
An Incan city
400
Why did Indians help Cortes fight the Aztec?
They were unhappy with the Aztec rule.
400
What did Motecuhzoma ask his people to do?
He asked them to stop fighting Cortes's forces.
500
What happened to Spain as a result of Columbus's voyage to the New World?
Spain gained great wealth in the New World.
500
Who was the navigator who helped Vasco de Gama sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India?
Ahmad Ibn Majid
500
What explorer lead the first Europeans to see the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
500
How did Henry Hudson die?
His crew mutinied and set him adrift in a small boat on Hudson Bay.
500
How did Cortes prevent his men from turning back and leaving during their invasion of the Aztecs?
He burned all but one of their boats so they couldn't go back.