WorksheetsExploring the America's Chapter two
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is classical?
Ancient Greek and Roman
Just Ancient Greece
Just Ancient Rome
What is renaissance
rebirth
reknown
reskilled
The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
Renaissance
Technology
Classical
What was used as an instrument to measure position of stars
caravel
astrolabe
What is a three mastered small moving ship that fast?
Caravel
sailboat
astrolabe
What is a journey to a holy place?
Mission
Pilgrimage
fasting
What is a mosque?
A port for ships
A famous palace
Muslim house of worship
Match the following
Mali's Greatest King
Mansa Musa
Wrote an account of the marvels?
Marco Polo
What Country was the largest in the history of West Africa
Songhai
Developed the stern rudder
The arabs
Trading empire that emerged from West Africa
Ghana
What is the line of demarcation?
An imaginary line that runs through the Pacific from North Pole to South Pole
An imaginary line that runs through the middle of Atlantic from North Pole to South Pole
An imaginary line that runs through the middle of Atlantic from East to West
What is a straight
A narrow passage way connecting two larger bodies of water
A large lake
Where the oceans meets a river
What is a large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers?
Mill house
Plantation
Small business
The sail around the world
voyage
misson impossible
Sircumnavigate
Who did Marco Polo sail for?
Spain
Portugal
France
Italy
Who laid the groundwork for exploration in Portugal
Prince Henry
Prince Adam
Prince Charles
Who was the first Portuguese to India that set sail with four ships?
Vasco da Gama
Columbus
Marco Polo
Who reached Asia using the using a method called ptolemy to measure the earth's size?
Columbus
Marcho Polo
Vasco Da Game
What were the names of Columbus' ships? (select more than one)
Nina
Pinta
Santa Maria
Titanic
Where did Columbus think he landed?
East Indies
Americas
Africa
What is a conquistador?
An explorer going to spain
A Asian Explorer going to the America's
A Spanish explorer go to the America's
An American explorer discovering Europe
What is money paid for protection
Mission
Tribute
Loan
What was the Protestant Reformation
New religion in the America's brought about by religious differences
The joining of the Catholic Religion
Not understanding Catholicism
What wiped out the Native Americans during Spanish Conquest
weapons
diseases like small pox
Rode horse and had ferocious dogs
Match the following social systems in Spain's emipire
peninsulares
upper class and owned land
Creoles
People born in Americas. Spanish parent
mestizos
Lower class: spanish and Native American
Africans
Very bottom who were enslaved
indigenous people
native inhabitants of the Americas
Match the following
John Cabot
Founded Newfoundland
Jacques Cartier
Sailed up Lawrence River found Montreal
Henry Hudson
English who sailed Hudson River and Bay
Samual De Champlain
Established Quebec and Lake Champlain
Who started the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Christopher Columber
Marco Polo
John Calvin
Match the following key terms
mercantilism
theory on nations power based on wealth
Columbian Exchange
Trade of goods, ideas, people w/Eu & Am
Northwest Passage
Water Route to Asia thru North America.
Coureurdebois
Runner of the woods/French Trapper
Match
Hernan Cortes
Conquered the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered Peru
Juan Ponce de Leon
Made the first spanish landing in Fl.
Cabeza de Vaca
Part of Spanish exped.. to Florida
Match the following
Pueblos
Towns
Missions
Religious Communities
Encomienda
Right to demand taxes or labor to NA's
Plantation
Large estate
Presideo
A fort usually built near a mission
