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Exploring the America's Chapter two

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is classical?

a)

Ancient Greek and Roman

b)

Just Ancient Greece

c)

Just Ancient Rome

2.

What is renaissance

a)

rebirth

b)

reknown

c)

reskilled

3.

The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.

a)

Renaissance

b)

Technology

c)

Classical

4.

What was used as an instrument to measure position of stars

a)

caravel

b)

astrolabe

5.

What is a three mastered small moving ship that fast?

a)

Caravel

b)

sailboat

c)

astrolabe

6.

What is a journey to a holy place?

a)

Mission

b)

Pilgrimage

c)

fasting

7.

What is a mosque?

a)

A port for ships

b)

A famous palace

c)

Muslim house of worship

8.

Match the following

a)

Mali's Greatest King

1.

Mansa Musa

b)

Wrote an account of the marvels?

2.

Marco Polo

c)

What Country was the largest in the history of West Africa

3.

Songhai

d)

Developed the stern rudder

4.

The arabs

e)

Trading empire that emerged from West Africa

5.

Ghana

9.

What is the line of demarcation?

a)

An imaginary line that runs through the Pacific from North Pole to South Pole

b)

An imaginary line that runs through the middle of Atlantic from North Pole to South Pole

c)

An imaginary line that runs through the middle of Atlantic from East to West

10.

What is a straight

a)

A narrow passage way connecting two larger bodies of water

b)

A large lake

c)

Where the oceans meets a river

11.

What is a large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers?

a)

Mill house

b)

Plantation

c)

Small business

12.

The sail around the world

a)

voyage

b)

misson impossible

c)

Sircumnavigate

13.

Who did Marco Polo sail for?

a)

Spain

b)

Portugal

c)

France

d)

Italy

14.

Who laid the groundwork for exploration in Portugal

a)

Prince Henry

b)

Prince Adam

c)

Prince Charles

15.

Who was the first Portuguese to India that set sail with four ships?

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Columbus

c)

Marco Polo

16.

Who reached Asia using the using a method called ptolemy to measure the earth's size?

a)

Columbus

b)

Marcho Polo

c)

Vasco Da Game

17.

What were the names of Columbus' ships? (select more than one)

a)

Nina

b)

Pinta

c)

Santa Maria

d)

Titanic

18.

Where did Columbus think he landed?

a)

East Indies

b)

Americas

c)

Africa

19.

What is a conquistador?

a)

An explorer going to spain

b)

A Asian Explorer going to the America's

c)

A Spanish explorer go to the America's

d)

An American explorer discovering Europe

20.

What is money paid for protection

a)

Mission

b)

Tribute

c)

Loan

21.

What was the Protestant Reformation

a)

New religion in the America's brought about by religious differences

b)

The joining of the Catholic Religion

c)

Not understanding Catholicism

22.

What wiped out the Native Americans during Spanish Conquest

a)

weapons

b)

diseases like small pox

c)

Rode horse and had ferocious dogs

23.

Match the following social systems in Spain's emipire

a)

peninsulares

1.

upper class and owned land

b)

Creoles

2.

People born in Americas. Spanish parent

c)

mestizos

3.

Lower class: spanish and Native American

d)

Africans

4.

Very bottom who were enslaved

e)

indigenous people

5.

native inhabitants of the Americas

24.

Match the following

a)

John Cabot

1.

Founded Newfoundland

b)

Jacques Cartier

2.

Sailed up Lawrence River found Montreal

c)

Henry Hudson

3.

English who sailed Hudson River and Bay

d)

Samual De Champlain

4.

Established Quebec and Lake Champlain

25.

Who started the Protestant Reformation

a)

Martin Luther

b)

Christopher Columber

c)

Marco Polo

d)

John Calvin

26.

Match the following key terms

a)

mercantilism

1.

theory on nations power based on wealth

b)

Columbian Exchange

2.

Trade of goods, ideas, people w/Eu & Am

c)

Northwest Passage

3.

Water Route to Asia thru North America.

d)

Coureurdebois

4.

Runner of the woods/French Trapper

27.

Match

a)

Hernan Cortes

1.

Conquered the Aztecs

b)

Francisco Pizarro

2.

Conquered Peru

c)

Juan Ponce de Leon

3.

Made the first spanish landing in Fl.

d)

Cabeza de Vaca

4.

Part of Spanish exped.. to Florida

28.

Match the following

a)

Pueblos

1.

Towns

b)

Missions

2.

Religious Communities

c)

Encomienda

3.

Right to demand taxes or labor to NA's

d)

Plantation

4.

Large estate

e)

Presideo

5.

A fort usually built near a mission