THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

Review Questions

  1. What leader of Portugal established a mariners’ (sailor’s) school?
  2. What Portuguese explorer was the first to make it to the tip of Africa?
  3. What Portuguese explorer was the first to make it to India?
  4. Who were the King and Queen of Spain that wanted to compete with Portugal?
  5. What was the campaign within Spain called designed to rid the country of all Jews and anyone else that was not Catholic?
  6. What country was responsible for first establishing ties to Africa and the slave trade?
  7. Who was the King of the Vikings that started colonies in Greenland and Iceland?
  8. Who was the first Viking to discover America?
  9. What was the name that first Viking to discover America called Canada?
  10. What country was Columbus from?
  11. In which country did Columbus learn all of his skill about navigating a ship?
  12. What country agreed to finance Columbus’ trip?
  13. What were the names of the ships that Columbus took with him on his voyage?
  14. What was the name of the first Indians that Columbus encountered?
  15. Who was the first person to determine that Columbus’ findings was really a different continent?
  16. What was the name of the painful diseases that sailors suffered from due to not having sufficient vitamins?
  17. What was name given to the exchange of goods between Europe and the New World?
  18. What two countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
  19. Who was the person that urged the two countries to sign the Treaty of Tordesillas?
  20. What was the name of the large farms that grew crops for the purpose of selling them?
  21. What is the name given to items such as sugar and cotton that was grown for the purpose of making money?
  22. What was the name of the Spanish ships that transported the gold from the New World back to Spain?
  23. What was the name given to the forced laborers that were stolen from Africa and brought to America in order to work on the plantations?
  24. What similarity between the America’s and ancient Egypt caused some scientists to think that the ancient Egyptians were the first to make it to the Americas?
  25. What was the name of the ancient Indians that traveled into the Americas from Asia?
  26. How did the ancient Indians make it into the Americas?
  27. What were the two advanced Native American civilizations?
  28. Why were prices of Asian goods so high in the middle of the 1400’s?
  29. Once the Portuguese are able to sail to Asia by how much did it reduce the cost of goods?
  30. What two Spanish influences did Columbus’s discovery have on the America’s that can still be observed today?
  31. What two goods in the Columbian exchange saved the lives of many Europeans?
  32. What important contribution to navigation did Prince Henry of Portugal help bring about?
  33. What title did the king and queen of Spain bestow on Columbus before his first expedition?
  34. Who was the explorer that sailed for England that looked for the Northwest Passage and was finally left by his crew in a body of water named after himself within Canada?
  35. What were the three G’s?
  36. What was the name of the French Fort that the Spanish destroyed?
  37. Who was responsible for destroying the Aztec civilization?
  38. What civilization did Francisco Pizarro destroy?
  39. What was Ponce de Leon looking for when he found Florida?
  40. What did Coronado find instead of the Seven Cities of Gold?
  41. Who was the first to discover the Pacific Ocean?
  42. In 1500 experts believe the population of Native American was 25 million. What was the population in 1600?
  43. Who was the religious Monk that attempted to help the Indians?
  44. What was the solution to the problem where Europeans were stuck paying middle men high prices for goods from Asia?
  45. What US city were the Dutch the first to settle while exploring the New World?
  46. What areas within the New World did France settle?
  47. Why did the French destroy FortCaroline?
  48. What country became Spain’s greatest rivals?
  49. Why did King Henry VIII go through so many wives?
  50. What church did Henry VIII begin?
  51. What was the name of the people within England that wanted to purify the church?
  52. Who was Henry’s male heir to the throne?
  53. What happened to King Henry’s male heir to the throne?
  54. What was Mary nickname?
  55. Why did Mary earn the nickname she was given?
  56. Who did the Throne pass to after Mary died?
  57. Who was the most famous of the English Privateers?
  58. What was the name of Spain’s navy?
  59. What three things allowed the English to defeat the Spanish?
  60. What was the name of the water route that explorers believed existed that traveled through the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean?