Chapter 2 "European Exploration & Settlement" Quiz 1

a tool that looked like a right triangle with a curved edge; used to line it up with the sun and let the sailor know where the sun would be at a particular angle

• compass

• quadrant

• tacking

• caravan

This type of ship was built by the Portuguese

• tacking

• sailboat

• caravel

• speedboat

An important invention that is basically a magnet so that one end points north.

• quadrant

• caravel

• compass

• none of the above

Who believed a person could sail west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach Asia?

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

Who helped the Portuguese become skilled in exploration?

• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• None of the above

Who was the first European to sail around Africa's southern tip?

• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

Who was the first to sail from Europe to India?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

I decided to become a monk; while in the monastery, I wrote about the treatment of the Indians and how they should be treated as people.

• the pope

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Peter Minuit

• Peter Stuyvesant

Who wanted the people of New Netherland to be a godly colony and attend the Dutch Reformed Church?

• Martin Luther

• King Henry VIII

• Gilbert & Raleigh

• Peter Stuyvesant

What were the names of the early settlements in North America?

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• New Netherland

• New France

• New England