HIUS 221 Exam 1 || All Questions Answered Correctly.
Who were the first Europeans to enter the continent of America? correct answers Lief Ericson
(1000 AD)
Where did the Danish Vikings travel? correct answers South toward Germany, France, England,
and Spain
Where did the Swedish Viking travel? correct answers Eastern Europe
Where did the Norwegian Vikings travel? correct answers Greenland and North America
Why did no one come from Europe to America between Ad 1000 and 1492? correct answers
Feudalism (England social system)
Isolation
Local Perspective
When did the first Crusade occur? correct answers Around 2000 AD
Who traveled to China and wrote about it in 1270? correct answers Marco Polo
What was the Commercial Revolution? correct answers Caused age of discovery and trade
during 1300-1500
Who set up school of navigation and sailed below Africa? correct answers Prince Henry the
Navigator
Who traveled below Cape of Good Hope around 1490? correct answers Bartholomew Dias
Bartholomew Dias was a follower of who? correct answers Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled all the way under the Cape of Good Hope and up to India around 1500? correct
answers Vasco Da Gamma
Who got rich by traveling to India? correct answers Vasco Da Gamma
Who was Christopher Columbus financially supported by? correct answers Ferdinand and
Isabella
Where did Christopher Columbus land thinking he was in the Indies? correct answers Cuba
Who was the Mapmaker America was accidentally named after? correct answers Amerigo
Vespucci
What was the line called that was drawn by the Pope to settle the dispute over who got what
between Spain and Portugal? correct answers Line of Demarcation
, Who discovered Panama? correct answers Balboa
Who settled the first French settlement in the New World around 1600? correct answers Samuel
de Champlain
Where was the first French settlement located? correct answers Along the banks of the St.
Lawrence River- named Quebec
What was the most valuable trade item of New France? correct answers Fur
Why didn't New France attract many settlers? correct answers Weather was cold and poor for
farming
What was the first Dutch settlement called established around 1610? correct answers New
Amsterdam
What disease traveled from the new world to the old world during the Columbian Exchange?
correct answers Syphilis. The rest traveled from the old world to the new world
How did the Early Chesapeake differ from the Spanish MOdel of Settlement? correct answers 1)
Lacked stable family and institutional structure
2) Lacked element of permanence
3) More focused on gold, glory, and God (spreading the Catholic faith)
Who wrote "Discourse of Western Planting" to Queen Elizabeth to encourage her to get involved
in the New World? correct answers Richard Hakluyt
Who was the first British citizen born in America? correct answers Virginia Dare
Who was the governor of Roanoke when it was first established around 1580? correct answers
John White
What was the lost colony of Roanoke? correct answers Croatoan
Who was the leader of Jamestown around 1600? correct answers James I
What were join-stock companies? correct answers Businesses split into shares, founded by the
Dutch and practiced in Jamestown
What was the Spanish Model? correct answers 3 ships that arrived in Jamestown around 1600 to
look for gold and a northwest passage
Who created the new tobacco leaf? correct answers John Rolfe
Who were the first Europeans to enter the continent of America? correct answers Lief Ericson
(1000 AD)
Where did the Danish Vikings travel? correct answers South toward Germany, France, England,
and Spain
Where did the Swedish Viking travel? correct answers Eastern Europe
Where did the Norwegian Vikings travel? correct answers Greenland and North America
Why did no one come from Europe to America between Ad 1000 and 1492? correct answers
Feudalism (England social system)
Isolation
Local Perspective
When did the first Crusade occur? correct answers Around 2000 AD
Who traveled to China and wrote about it in 1270? correct answers Marco Polo
What was the Commercial Revolution? correct answers Caused age of discovery and trade
during 1300-1500
Who set up school of navigation and sailed below Africa? correct answers Prince Henry the
Navigator
Who traveled below Cape of Good Hope around 1490? correct answers Bartholomew Dias
Bartholomew Dias was a follower of who? correct answers Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled all the way under the Cape of Good Hope and up to India around 1500? correct
answers Vasco Da Gamma
Who got rich by traveling to India? correct answers Vasco Da Gamma
Who was Christopher Columbus financially supported by? correct answers Ferdinand and
Isabella
Where did Christopher Columbus land thinking he was in the Indies? correct answers Cuba
Who was the Mapmaker America was accidentally named after? correct answers Amerigo
Vespucci
What was the line called that was drawn by the Pope to settle the dispute over who got what
between Spain and Portugal? correct answers Line of Demarcation
, Who discovered Panama? correct answers Balboa
Who settled the first French settlement in the New World around 1600? correct answers Samuel
de Champlain
Where was the first French settlement located? correct answers Along the banks of the St.
Lawrence River- named Quebec
What was the most valuable trade item of New France? correct answers Fur
Why didn't New France attract many settlers? correct answers Weather was cold and poor for
farming
What was the first Dutch settlement called established around 1610? correct answers New
Amsterdam
What disease traveled from the new world to the old world during the Columbian Exchange?
correct answers Syphilis. The rest traveled from the old world to the new world
How did the Early Chesapeake differ from the Spanish MOdel of Settlement? correct answers 1)
Lacked stable family and institutional structure
2) Lacked element of permanence
3) More focused on gold, glory, and God (spreading the Catholic faith)
Who wrote "Discourse of Western Planting" to Queen Elizabeth to encourage her to get involved
in the New World? correct answers Richard Hakluyt
Who was the first British citizen born in America? correct answers Virginia Dare
Who was the governor of Roanoke when it was first established around 1580? correct answers
John White
What was the lost colony of Roanoke? correct answers Croatoan
Who was the leader of Jamestown around 1600? correct answers James I
What were join-stock companies? correct answers Businesses split into shares, founded by the
Dutch and practiced in Jamestown
What was the Spanish Model? correct answers 3 ships that arrived in Jamestown around 1600 to
look for gold and a northwest passage
Who created the new tobacco leaf? correct answers John Rolfe
