History 1,3-4 36 multiple choice ques.

kendrick his honors

was an Italian explorer and merchant who made early voyages to the Americas in 1499 and 1501.

Amerigo Vespucci

a fortified trading post built on the St. Lawrence River in 1608 that was the first permanent European settlement in Canada.

Quebec

the location where Magellan was killed during his expedition.

Philippine Islands

was born in the seaport city of Genoa, Italy. Columbus began his seafaring life at age 14. He went to Portugal for navigator’s training and settled there with his brother John. Columbus gained the support of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the monarchs of Spain, and eventually made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Columbus’s expedition led Europeans to become aware of the existence of the American continents and launched the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

a water route to Asia that many believe could be found through the cold waters of present-day Canada.

Northwest Passage

period of European history lasting from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which ushered in a more secular outlook and encouraged freedom of thought, the importance of the individual, and renewed interest in classical learning.

Renaissance

was the son of Portuguese nobility who eventually became a navigator and explorer, known for leading the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

Ferdinand Magellan

sun-dried brick made from earth, water, and straw.

Adobe

Spanish conquerors.

Conquistadores

was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488. Dias accomplished this feat by learning how to use the counterclockwise winds and currents of the South Atlantic to get around southern Africa. Dias's success opened the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Dias died in 1500 after his ship was lost at sea near the Cape of Good Hope.

Bartolomeu Dias (1450?-1500)

was a Portuguese navigator whose three voyages to India around the Cape of Good Hope opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East.

Vasco da Gama (1460?-1524

an empire in present-day Mexico that was overthrown by Hernan Cortés.

Aztec Empire

French colonists who lived in the woods as fur traders.

Coureurs de bois

period in Earth's history with low global temperatures and glaciers covering large areas.

ice age

was a Portuguese navigator who is generally credited as the first European to land in present-day Brazil in 1500.

Pedro Alvarez Cabral

person in French colonial America who was of French and American Indian descent.

Metis

people in Spanish colonial America who were of European and American Indian descent.

Mestizos

was a French explorer and the founder of the city of Quebec.

Samuel de Champlain

a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego.

Strait of Magellan

the global exchange of goods and ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus made his first transatlantic voyage in 1492.

Columbian Exchange

commanded the force of Spanish conquistadors that overthrew the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under the control of Spain.

Hernan Cortés

the act of traveling all the way around the Earth.

Circumnavigation

forts built by the Spanish in colonial America, usually in what is today the Southwest United States and California

Presidios

a confederation made up of five Iroquois peoples: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas

Iroquois League

the ninth Aztec emperor who became leader of the Aztec Empire in 1502 and was taken prisoner by Hernan Cortés

Moctezuma

the capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco.

Tenochtitlan

period of European history for the 5th century through the 14th century.

Middle Ages

The American Indian people who were dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

Aztecs

was an Italian explorer who was hired by Henry VII of England to explore the unknown lands of the Americas. In 1497, Cabot sailed west, crossing the North Atlantic, landing in Newfoundland, in present-day Canada. Cabot's voyages contributed to the eventual establishment of British colonies in North America.

John Cabot

campaign, ending in 1492, that reestablished Spanish Christian rule on the Iberian Peninsula after 700 years of Muslim dominance.

Reconquista

to move from one region or habitat to another.

Migrated

in colonial Spanish America, king-appointed official who governed a province, colony, or country.

Viceroy

people sent to a foreign country to convert others to their religion.

Missionaries

American people of the Yucatan area of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

maya

was the third son of King John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster, an English noblewoman. Prince Henry established a school for Portuguese mariners where they learned about navigation, map-making, and ship design. The nickname 'The Navigator' was given to him by English writers incorrectly, since Henry never took part in any exploratory voyages.

Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)