CHAPTER 3: EXPLORERS

Name means "peaceful":

• Gutenberg

• Renaissance

• Vespucci

• Panama

• Pacific

This explorer was the first to realize that the New World did not match up with Polo's descriptions of Asia:

• Desoto

• Vespucci

• Cortes

• Balboa

• Pizzarro

Spain hired Columbus to explore the New World because:

• Spain waged a war against Muslims and sought more land and power

• Columbus promised to covert people to Christianity

• Columbus promised to claim any new lands he discovered for Spain

• None of the above

• All of the above

Used for determining longitude:

• compass

• astrolabe

Gave Spain an advantage at sea because it was lighter and faster:

• astrolabe

• caravel

• compass

• printing press

This invention changed the way information was shared during the Renaissance:

• astrolabe

• compass

• typewriter

• printing press

Discovered that Panama could be crossed and there was a "new" ocean, the Pacific, on the other side:

• Balboa

• DeSoto

• Cartier

• Hudson

• Coronado

Sought the Cities of Gold:

• DeSoto

• Cortes

• Coronado

• DeLeon

• Balboa

Isthmus:

• helps sailors determine latitude

• island first discovered by Henry Cabot

• narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas

• Giovanni Verazzano's ship

Sought the Fountain of Youth:

• Cortes

• deNiza

• Tenochitlan

• Motecuhzuma

• De Leon