Chapter 2 VOCAB

What is a caravan?

• A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods

• A type of ship used by the Portuguese

• A tool invented by the Arabs

• A peninsula in southwestern Europe

Which peninsula includes the countries of Spain and Portugal?

• Iberian Peninsula

• Arabian Peninsula

• Balkan Peninsula

• Scandinavian Peninsula

What is a group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England by removing false teachings and practices

• caravel

• separatist

• huguenot

• puritan

What is a tack in sailing?

• To change the direction of a ship to head into the wind in a zigzag pattern

• A type of ship with large triangular sails

• An invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing

• A tool used to measure distance in degrees from the equator

Peter Stuyvesant was

• governor of New Amsterdam who wanted all the people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church

• an explorer for Spain who discovered what
  are now called the Americas

• the leader of Jamestown who tried to stop the fighting between the Indians and the English

• teacher at Presbyterian Christian School

What is a caravel?

• A Portuguese constructed ship with large triangular sails

• A group of traders who travel together

• A tool invented by the Arabs

• A peninsula in southwestern Europe

What was a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location

• compass

• quadrant

• ship

• caravel

Who was Vasco de Gama?

• A Portuguese navigator who was the first to sail from Europe to India

• An explorer for Spain who discovered the Americas

• The leader of Jamestown

• The second governor of Plymouth Colony

Who was the Spanish historian and missionary to the Indians in America?

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Christopher Columbus

• John Smith

• William Bradford

What is a person who agreed to work for a period of time
to pay off a debt

• puritians

• huguenot

• indentured servant

• separatist