HISTORY 105 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
Aztec Empire - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Mesoamerican
people who were conquered by the spanish under
Hernando Cortez, 1519--1528
Pueblos - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the Spanish term for
the adobe cliff dwellings of the indigenous people of the
southwestern U.S.
Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
Italian sailor who persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain to fund his expedition across the Atlantic
to discover new trade routes to Asia. Instead of arriving in
China or Japan, he reached the Bahamas
Amerigo Vespucci - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1455-1512;
Italian explorer who reached the new world in 1499 and
was the first to suggest that South America was a new
continent. Afterward, European mappers used a variant of
his first name to label the new world
Hernan Cortes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1485-1547; the
Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Aztec the
,empire and set the precedent for other plundering
conquistadors
Conquistadores - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔spanish term for
"conqueror", applied to European leaders of campaigns
against indigenous peoples in central/southern america
Tenochtitlan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Capital city of the
Aztec Empire. The city was built on marshy islands on the
western side of Lake Tetzcoco, present site Mexico City.
Francisco Pizarro - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1478-1541; In
1531, he lead his Spanish soldiers to Peru and conquered
the Inca Empire
Encomienda - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔system under
which officers of the Spanish Conquistadores gained
ownership of Indian Land
Hernando De Soto - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1500-1541; a
conquistador who explored the west coast of Florida,
western NC, and along the Arkansas river until his death
Reformation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔European religious
movement that challenged the Catholic Church and
,resulted in the beginnings of protestant Christianity.
During this period, Catholics and Protestants persecuted,
imprisoned, tortured, and killed each other in large
numbers
Martin Luther - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔German monk
who founded the Lutheran Church. he protested absuses
in the Catholic Church by posting his Ninety-Five thesis,
which began the Protestant Reformation
Jacques Cartier - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1491-1557; He
led the first French effort to colonize North America and
explored the Gulf of. St Lawrence and reached as far as
present day Montreal on St. Lawrence River
Raleigh's Roanoke Island Colony - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔English expedition of 117 settlers, including Virginia
Dare, the first English Child born in the New World; colony
disappeared from Roanoke Island in the outer banks
sometime between 1587 and 1590
Virginia Company - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a joint stock
enterprise that King James 1 chartered in 1606. The
company was to spread Christianity in the New World as
well as find ways to make a profit in it
, Chief Powhatan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔He was called
Powhatan by the English after the name of his tribe and
and was the powerful, charismatic chief of numerous
Algoriquian speaking towns in eastern Virginia
representing over 10,000 Indians
Captain John Smith - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1580-1631;
a swashbuckling soldier of fortune with rare powers of
leadership and self-promotion, he was appointed to the
resident council to manage Jamestown
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unsuccessful
1676 revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against
Virginia governor William Berkley's administration
because it had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids
proprietary colonies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a colony
owned by an individual, rather than a joint-stock
Puritans - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔english religious groups
that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the
Massachusetts Bay colony under John Winthrop in 1630
Roger Williams - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1603-1683;
Puritan who believed that the purity of the church
required a complete sepearation between church, state,
ANSWERS
Aztec Empire - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Mesoamerican
people who were conquered by the spanish under
Hernando Cortez, 1519--1528
Pueblos - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the Spanish term for
the adobe cliff dwellings of the indigenous people of the
southwestern U.S.
Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
Italian sailor who persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain to fund his expedition across the Atlantic
to discover new trade routes to Asia. Instead of arriving in
China or Japan, he reached the Bahamas
Amerigo Vespucci - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1455-1512;
Italian explorer who reached the new world in 1499 and
was the first to suggest that South America was a new
continent. Afterward, European mappers used a variant of
his first name to label the new world
Hernan Cortes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1485-1547; the
Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Aztec the
,empire and set the precedent for other plundering
conquistadors
Conquistadores - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔spanish term for
"conqueror", applied to European leaders of campaigns
against indigenous peoples in central/southern america
Tenochtitlan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Capital city of the
Aztec Empire. The city was built on marshy islands on the
western side of Lake Tetzcoco, present site Mexico City.
Francisco Pizarro - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1478-1541; In
1531, he lead his Spanish soldiers to Peru and conquered
the Inca Empire
Encomienda - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔system under
which officers of the Spanish Conquistadores gained
ownership of Indian Land
Hernando De Soto - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1500-1541; a
conquistador who explored the west coast of Florida,
western NC, and along the Arkansas river until his death
Reformation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔European religious
movement that challenged the Catholic Church and
,resulted in the beginnings of protestant Christianity.
During this period, Catholics and Protestants persecuted,
imprisoned, tortured, and killed each other in large
numbers
Martin Luther - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔German monk
who founded the Lutheran Church. he protested absuses
in the Catholic Church by posting his Ninety-Five thesis,
which began the Protestant Reformation
Jacques Cartier - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1491-1557; He
led the first French effort to colonize North America and
explored the Gulf of. St Lawrence and reached as far as
present day Montreal on St. Lawrence River
Raleigh's Roanoke Island Colony - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔English expedition of 117 settlers, including Virginia
Dare, the first English Child born in the New World; colony
disappeared from Roanoke Island in the outer banks
sometime between 1587 and 1590
Virginia Company - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a joint stock
enterprise that King James 1 chartered in 1606. The
company was to spread Christianity in the New World as
well as find ways to make a profit in it
, Chief Powhatan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔He was called
Powhatan by the English after the name of his tribe and
and was the powerful, charismatic chief of numerous
Algoriquian speaking towns in eastern Virginia
representing over 10,000 Indians
Captain John Smith - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1580-1631;
a swashbuckling soldier of fortune with rare powers of
leadership and self-promotion, he was appointed to the
resident council to manage Jamestown
Bacon's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unsuccessful
1676 revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against
Virginia governor William Berkley's administration
because it had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids
proprietary colonies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a colony
owned by an individual, rather than a joint-stock
Puritans - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔english religious groups
that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the
Massachusetts Bay colony under John Winthrop in 1630
Roger Williams - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1603-1683;
Puritan who believed that the purity of the church
required a complete sepearation between church, state,
