WORLD HISTORY- CHAPTER #13
EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Europeans - ANSWER-feared a full-scale Muslim invasion of eastern Europe. They
hoped to enlist Prester John's help. By attacking from both the north and south, their
combined forces could defeat the Muslims.
mapmakers - ANSWER-updated sailing charts based on the reports of traders and
fishermen
Maps - ANSWER-to guide them to their destination
Latitude - ANSWER-distance from the equator
Portugal and Spain - ANSWER-leading nations of the Age of Exploration
Portuguese - ANSWER-controlled India's water route and broke the Muslim trade
monopoly in the Indian Ocean
300 - ANSWER-Miles from Japan to China
Portugal - ANSWER-took the east of the line of Demarcation
Spain - ANSWER-took west of the line of Demarcation
Circumnavigation - ANSWER-"The greatest single human achievement on sea"
Strait of Magellan - ANSWER-Present Day Southern Tip of South America
"Great Spirit" - ANSWER-Most Indians tribes believed in what
Northeastern Indians - ANSWER-five-tribe confederation led by the Iroquois
Southeastern Indians - ANSWER-"mound-builders"
Plain Indians - ANSWER-roamed grasslands and hunted buffalo
Southwest Indians - ANSWER-"cliff-dwellers"
West Coast Indians - ANSWER-remembered for their totem poles
, Mayans - ANSWER-developed hieroglyphics, studied astronomy, and developed a
system of mathematics
Aztecs - ANSWER-Were fighters and sacrificed prisoners to their gods
Tenochtitlan - ANSWER-- Aztecs built a city on an island in the middle of a lake in
Central Mexico
- networks of canals
- "The Venice of the New World"
Inca - ANSWER-known for farming
1. to search for riches
2. to convert the Indians to Catholicism
3. establish Spanish authority - ANSWER-conquistadors goals
Conquistadors - ANSWER-"conquerors"
(Vasco Nunez de) Balboa - ANSWER-found a great body of water and named it the
"South Sea"
Pacific - ANSWER-Magellan renamed the South Sea to ______
(Hernando) Cortes - ANSWER-greatest of all conquistadors
Montezuma - ANSWER-god Quetzalcoatl
Viceroys - ANSWER-"assistant kings"
(Francisco) Pizarro - ANSWER-cruelest of all the conquistadors
(Bartolome de) Las Casas - ANSWER-Roman Catholic Friar passed the "New Laws"
which protected the Indians from being made slaves
(Hernando de) Soto - ANSWER-discovered the Mississippi River
(Francisco Vasquez de) Coronado - ANSWER-"Seven Cities of Cibola"
(Jacques) Cartier - ANSWER-French explorer that saw a nearby mountain and named
the site "Mount Royal" (in French, Montreal)
(Samuel de) Champlain - ANSWER-"Father of New France"
Ontario and Huron lake - ANSWER-Samuel de Champlain was led to what 2 great lakes
New York City - ANSWER-Dutch renamed New Amsterdam to
EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Europeans - ANSWER-feared a full-scale Muslim invasion of eastern Europe. They
hoped to enlist Prester John's help. By attacking from both the north and south, their
combined forces could defeat the Muslims.
mapmakers - ANSWER-updated sailing charts based on the reports of traders and
fishermen
Maps - ANSWER-to guide them to their destination
Latitude - ANSWER-distance from the equator
Portugal and Spain - ANSWER-leading nations of the Age of Exploration
Portuguese - ANSWER-controlled India's water route and broke the Muslim trade
monopoly in the Indian Ocean
300 - ANSWER-Miles from Japan to China
Portugal - ANSWER-took the east of the line of Demarcation
Spain - ANSWER-took west of the line of Demarcation
Circumnavigation - ANSWER-"The greatest single human achievement on sea"
Strait of Magellan - ANSWER-Present Day Southern Tip of South America
"Great Spirit" - ANSWER-Most Indians tribes believed in what
Northeastern Indians - ANSWER-five-tribe confederation led by the Iroquois
Southeastern Indians - ANSWER-"mound-builders"
Plain Indians - ANSWER-roamed grasslands and hunted buffalo
Southwest Indians - ANSWER-"cliff-dwellers"
West Coast Indians - ANSWER-remembered for their totem poles
, Mayans - ANSWER-developed hieroglyphics, studied astronomy, and developed a
system of mathematics
Aztecs - ANSWER-Were fighters and sacrificed prisoners to their gods
Tenochtitlan - ANSWER-- Aztecs built a city on an island in the middle of a lake in
Central Mexico
- networks of canals
- "The Venice of the New World"
Inca - ANSWER-known for farming
1. to search for riches
2. to convert the Indians to Catholicism
3. establish Spanish authority - ANSWER-conquistadors goals
Conquistadors - ANSWER-"conquerors"
(Vasco Nunez de) Balboa - ANSWER-found a great body of water and named it the
"South Sea"
Pacific - ANSWER-Magellan renamed the South Sea to ______
(Hernando) Cortes - ANSWER-greatest of all conquistadors
Montezuma - ANSWER-god Quetzalcoatl
Viceroys - ANSWER-"assistant kings"
(Francisco) Pizarro - ANSWER-cruelest of all the conquistadors
(Bartolome de) Las Casas - ANSWER-Roman Catholic Friar passed the "New Laws"
which protected the Indians from being made slaves
(Hernando de) Soto - ANSWER-discovered the Mississippi River
(Francisco Vasquez de) Coronado - ANSWER-"Seven Cities of Cibola"
(Jacques) Cartier - ANSWER-French explorer that saw a nearby mountain and named
the site "Mount Royal" (in French, Montreal)
(Samuel de) Champlain - ANSWER-"Father of New France"
Ontario and Huron lake - ANSWER-Samuel de Champlain was led to what 2 great lakes
New York City - ANSWER-Dutch renamed New Amsterdam to
