chapter 2 European Exploration and Settlement

A tool invented by the Arab sailors used to calculate the

angle of the sun.

• Compass

• Quadrant

• Tacking

• Caravan

A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods.

• Quadrant

• Compass

• Caravan

• Caravel

An invention that allowed sailors to know which direction

they were sailing

• Caravel

• Ores

• Compass

• Clock

Who was the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa for Portugal?

• Prince Henry

• Las Casas

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

Which European explorer set foot on an island in Central America in 1492?

• Columbus

• Las Casas

• Dias

• Da Gama

Who wrote about the bad treatment of the American Indians?

• Powhatan

• Bartolome Las Casas

• Vasco Da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

Eventually declared that American Indians are humans with souls.

• Columbus

• Prince Henry

• Dias

• Pope Paul the III

The zigzag motion of a ship that allows it to sail into the wind is called?

• quadrant

• small triangular sails

• tacking

• square sails

The first person to sail from Europe to the Asian continent was___ .

• Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

Who said the Indians should become Roman Catholics or become slaves?

• The French

• The Americans

• The Spanish

• The Chinese