19.2 Review

European leaders like Spain's King Ferdinand and the Portuguese prince known as Henry the _________ financed explorers willing to journey across the seas. 

• VIII
• Navigator
• Emperor
• Great

In the Americas, a great number of native people died of diseases they contracted from the Europeans.

• True
• False

On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships: the Niña, _____, and Santa Maria. 

• Titanic
• Mayflower
• Pinta
• Pinto

In 1497, Italian-born navigator John Cabot set out to find a sea route to Asia for the British. Instead, he discovered _____.

• Mexico
• the Bahamas
• Canada
• Iceland

 In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller officially named the continent "______" in honor of Vespucci.

• Vespucciana
• America
• New York
• American

_______ became the first European explorer to cross the American continents and set eyes on the Pacific Ocean.

• Hudson
• Balboa
• Cortes
• Columbus

Magellan's expedition returned to Spain in 1522 and proved that the world was indeed _____.

• flat
• round
• uninhabitable
• oval

 Building alliances helped the Spanish expand their territory in the New World.

• True
• False

During the Renaissance, _____ was the busiest seaport in the world.

• Paris
• London
• Venice
• Athens

Havana is the capital of _____.

• spain
• Mexico
• Cuba
• the 
  Bahamas