Exploring the Americas Review

Who reached America first

• Columbus

• Erikson

• Vespucci

• Cortes

Mansa Musa made his wealth by...

• Trading in gold and salt

• Horse Ranching

• Pyramid building

• Shipuilding

What was the period of time that awoken a cultural rebirth of discovery and innovation in Europe that contributed to the Age of Exploration?

• Middle Age

• Renaissance

• Bronze Age

• Early Modern Period

Who funded a new school in Portugal?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Zheng He

• Mansa Musa

• Prince Henry the Navigator

A treaty between Spain and Portugal that gave Spain all the land to the West and Portugal all the land to the East

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

Who is given credit with being the first to circumnavigate the world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magelan

• Amerigo Vespucci

Who had the New World continents named after him?

• Henry Hudson

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Francis Drake

Who went looking for a northwest passage to India?

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Prince Henry the Navigator

What does the graphic represent?

• 5 Classes of people in New Spain

• Settlements established by the conquistadors

• Types of people who supported exploration

• Types of people who supported Portuguese

What did Cabot and Hudson have in common?

• Financed by Spain

• Carried wealth back to Portugal

• Vanished and never found

• Commanded Mexican expeditions