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Question 1

What did Johannes Gutenberg invent allowing people to copy books faster and no longer by hand?

Accepted Answer

the printing press

Question 2

How did the Europeans benefit by learning and using gunpowder and steel from the Chinese?

Accepted Answer

Europeans overcame any resistance they met in their travels.

Question 3

What was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's major accomplishment?

Accepted Answer

first European to see the Grand Canyon

Question 4

What was Francisco Pizarro's major accomplishment?

Accepted Answer

defeated the Inca Empire

Question 5

Which explorer described the Far East as lands of riches along his travels on the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

Marco Polo

Question 6

This was the movement of people and items between continents.

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a spice European traders brought back from Asia?

Accepted Answer

salt

Question 8

What was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's major accomplishment?

Accepted Answer

first European to discover California

Question 9

Which of the following BEST describes the Silk Road?

Accepted Answer

a collection of trade routes linking China & India to Europe

Question 10

What was the North American sea route connecting the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans to Asia called?

Accepted Answer

the Northwest Passage

Question 11

Which tools were created due to advancements in navigation for explorers to use on journeys?

Accepted Answer

astrolabe, sextant, compass, and chronometer

Question 12

Which explorer decided to circumnavigate the world but was killed along the journey?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 13

Which navigational tool could tell explorers their latitude or distance from the Equator?

Accepted Answer

astrolabe

Question 14

Why did Spain sponsor Christopher Columbus’s journey?

Accepted Answer

Spain didn't want Portugal to be the first to reach Asia.

Question 15

Which of these explorers was NOT in search of the Northwest Passage?

Accepted Answer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 16

Why did King Francis I continue to sponsor Jacques Cartier’s voyages?

Accepted Answer

He believed there were riches in the West.

Question 17

All of these were hardships that explorers faced along their journeys EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

They got food poisoning from spoiled bananas.

Question 18

Why did Europeans look to the sea for new trade routes?

Accepted Answer

The Ottoman Empire cut off their access to land routes.

Question 19

Which of the following items was NOT brought over to the Americas in the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

potatoes

Question 20

These were triangular-shaped sails Portugal used to make ships faster and more maneuverable.

Accepted Answer

lateen

Question 21

What was Hernan Cortes's major accomplishment?

Accepted Answer

defeated the Aztec Empire

Question 22

Which explorer later became convinced that that he and Columbus had found a new world?

Accepted Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 23

These were all goals of Spanish conquistadors during their conquest of the Americas EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

learn about the Native American customs

Question 24

What was Juan Ponce de Leon's major accomplishment?

Accepted Answer

gave Florida its name

Question 25

Portugal’s search for new trade routes by sea to Asia led them to sponsor these voyages EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

a route North through Arctic Ocean and around Europe & Asia

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