Unit 2/Chapter 2 - Early Exploration

Instrument that shows the direction in which a person/vessel is traveling is a

• compass

• carrack

• caravels

• quadrant

Instrument that measured the position of the sun and stars; sailors could chart their location on a map; greatly improved navigation

• compass

• carrack

• caravels

• quadrant

Small ships which could sail closer to shore

• compass

• carrack

• caravels

• quadrant

The exchange of unfamiliar plants, animals, and diseases

• missions

• circumnavigate

• Columbian Exchange

• Protestant Reformation

Who recognize that South America was a continent after sailing along the coast.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John

  Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

Who was looking for gold and the “Fountain of Youth”

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Henry Hudson

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Martin Luther

To sail around the world is to

• strait

• circumnavigate

• technologo

• compass

A Spanish explorer is know as a

• Protestant

• Catholic

• conquistador

• armada

Which type of Spanish settlement was a fort in America?

• plantation

• pueblos

• missions

• presidio

Which type of Spanish settlement in America was meant to teach Natives about Christianity?

• plantation

• pueblos

• missions

• presidio