Module 2 Study Guide

Why did the Spanish and other Europeans want to find a route to Asia? (Select all correct answers)

• Spread Catholicism
• New Riches
• New Territory
• Fresh drinking water
• Wage war the islands in the west Indies

How did the men of Columbus's expedition first know they were nearing land?

• They saw the tops of mountains
• they saw birds and floating branches
• they saw the Taino rowing out to meet them
• they smelled the beautiful flowers from the islands

Who was the first explorer to realize that the lands being discovered were not in Asia?

• Columbus
• Balboa
• Magellan
• Vespucci

What was the result of the Treaty of Tordesillas

• Allowed Spain to conquer Portugal
• It gave the Native Americans land in Florida
• Portugal was allowed to borrow ships from Spain
• It moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles west

Why do people say that Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe even though he died on the way?

• He was one of the survivors who completed the expedition
• Because one ship from the expedition he led circumnavigated the globe
• He completed the expedition with 5 ships
• He came up with the idea but did not participate in the expedition

Treaty of Tordesillas

• Agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
• Sailor from Genoa, Italy (sailed the ocean blue in 1492)
• Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
• the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe
• imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories

Circumnavigate

• To go all the way around
• Sailor from Genoa, Italy (sailed the ocean blue in 1492)
• Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
• Agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
• the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe

Ferdinand Magellan

• Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
• Sailor from Genoa, Italy (sailed the ocean blue in 1492)
• Agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
• the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe
• imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories

Line of Demarcation

• imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories
• Sailor from Genoa, Italy (sailed the ocean blue in 1492)
• Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
• Agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
• the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe

Christopher Columbus

• Sailor from Genoa, Italy (sailed the ocean blue in 1492)
• Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
• Agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
• the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe
• imaginary boundary in the Atlantic dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories