8H: Ch. 1 Quiz Review

Who became the first European to travel the length of Asia?

• Leif Ericson

• Marco Polo

• Henry the Navigator

• Johann Gutenberg

Who conquered the Aztecs?

• Hernando de Soto

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando Cortes

• Juan Cabrillo

What revived interest in trade with the East?

• money

• trade

• culture

• crusades

What nation sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Canada

Who is credited with realizing that Columbus had explored a new continent and named it the Americas?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando Cortes

• Juan Cabrillo

• Hernando de Soto

Who established the first permanent French settlement in the New World of Quebec?

• Jacques Marquette

• Samuel de Champlain

• Jacques Cartier

• Robert Cavalier de La Salle

Who was part of an expedition that explored the Mississippi River?

• Samuel de Champlain

• Jacques Cartier

• Jacques Marquette

• Robert Cavalier de La Salle

Who protested the false doctrines of the Roman church by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany?

• John Calvin

• Leif Ericson

• Marco Polo

• Martin Luther

Where was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?

• San Diego

• St. Augustine

• New Orleans

• Santa Fe

Who led the expedition that discovered the Grand Canyon?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Juan Cabrillo

• Francisco Coronado

• Juan Ponce de Leon