Chapter 2 Review

Question 1

An instrument for determining directions

Accepted Answer

compass

Question 2

Information from explorers assisted mapmakers in creating more accurate land and sea maps.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 3

Which explorer discovered the long-awaited eastern sea route to Asia (made it to India)?

Accepted Answer

Vasco da Gama

Question 4

Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River

Accepted Answer

true

Question 5

During the Renaissance, rulers discouraged exploration outside of Europe.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 6

The first Spanish settlement was in ______.

Accepted Answer

St. Augustine

Question 7

a small Spanish or Portuguese ship usually with 2 or 3 masts

Accepted Answer

caravel

Question 8

A movement of Christians to take over a land

Accepted Answer

crusade

Question 9

Who was Marco Polo?

Accepted Answer

an explorer and author

Question 10

To sail around the world

Accepted Answer

circumnavigate

Question 11

an instrument used by sailors to observe positions of stars

Accepted Answer

astrolabe

Question 12

What was missing from the early maps?

Accepted Answer

Americas

Question 13

Which Portuguese prince laid the groundwork for a new era of exploration?

Accepted Answer

Henry the Navigator

Question 14

an astronomical instrument used to determine latitude and longitude

Accepted Answer

sextant

Question 15

Which agreement divided the unexplored world between Spain and Portugal?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 16

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta and ______

Accepted Answer

Santa Maria

Question 17

Who believed that faith rather than good deeds was the way to salvation?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 18

Who funded Columbus's voyage?

Accepted Answer

King and Queen of Spain

Question 19

The theory that a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth

Accepted Answer

mercantilism

Question 20

Where did the Dutch and the English establish their colonies?

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Coast

Question 21

Spain and Portugal agreed to divide ownership of the entire unexplored world

Accepted Answer

true

Question 22

Under King Mansa Musa, which city became an important center of Islamic art and learning?

Accepted Answer

Timbuktu

Question 23

The explorer who first sailed around the southern tip of Africa was ______

Accepted Answer

Bartholomeu Dias

Question 24

The historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity is known as the______

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 25

Which ship did Columbus sail on?

Accepted Answer

Santa Maria

Question 26

What explorer inspired Christopher Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Marco Polo

Question 27

Which one of these is usually built near a mission?

Accepted Answer

Presidio

Question 28

Ponce de Leon was the first explorer on the North American mainland

Accepted Answer

true

Question 29

A period of intellectual and artistic creativity

Accepted Answer

renaissance

Question 30

Montezuma was an African King

Accepted Answer

false

Question 31

Europeans didn't like paying high taxes to Arab merchants, so they _________

Accepted Answer

looked for routes that bypassed them

Question 32

Which invention helped Marco Polo's Travels gain wider circulation?

Accepted Answer

printing press

Question 33

The first European country to send explorers was _____.

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 34

Which explorer's crew was the first to sail around the world?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan's

Chapter 2 Review

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Chapter 2 Review

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