HIUS 221, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE, ALREADY
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Who were the first Europeans to enter the continent of America?
Lief Ericson (1000 AD)
Where did the Danish Vikings travel?
South toward Germany, France, England, and Spain
Where did the Swedish Viking travel?
Eastern Europe
Where did the Norwegian Vikings travel?
Greenland and North America
Why did no one come from Europe to America between Ad 1000 and 1492?
Feudalism (England social system)
Isolation
Local Perspective
When did the first Crusade occur?
Around 2000 AD
Who traveled to China and wrote about it in 1270?
Marco Polo
What was the Commercial Revolution?
Caused age of discovery and trade during 1300-1500
Who set up school of navigation and sailed below Africa?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled below Cape of Good Hope around 1490?
Bartholomew Dias
Bartholomew Dias was a follower of who?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled all the way under the Cape of Good Hope and up to India around 1500?
Vasco Da Gamma
Who got rich by traveling to India?
, Vasco Da Gamma
Who was Christopher Columbus financially supported by?
Ferdinand and Isabella
Where did Christopher Columbus land thinking he was in the Indies?
Cuba
Who was the Mapmaker America was accidentally named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
What was the line called that was drawn by the Pope to settle the dispute over who got what
between Spain and Portugal?
Line of Demarcation
Who discovered Panama?
Balboa
Who settled the first French settlement in the New World around 1600?
Samuel de Champlain
Where was the first French settlement located?
Along the banks of the St. Lawrence River- named Quebec
What was the most valuable trade item of New France?
Fur
Why didn't New France attract many settlers?
Weather was cold and poor for farming
What was the first Dutch settlement called established around 1610?
New Amsterdam
What disease traveled from the new world to the old world during the Columbian Exchange?
Syphilis. The rest traveled from the old world to the new world
How did the Early Chesapeake differ from the Spanish MOdel of Settlement?
1) Lacked stable family and institutional structure
2) Lacked element of permanence
3) More focused on gold, glory, and God (spreading the Catholic faith)
Who wrote "Discourse of Western Planting" to Queen Elizabeth to encourage her to get involved in
the New World?
GRADED A+
Who were the first Europeans to enter the continent of America?
Lief Ericson (1000 AD)
Where did the Danish Vikings travel?
South toward Germany, France, England, and Spain
Where did the Swedish Viking travel?
Eastern Europe
Where did the Norwegian Vikings travel?
Greenland and North America
Why did no one come from Europe to America between Ad 1000 and 1492?
Feudalism (England social system)
Isolation
Local Perspective
When did the first Crusade occur?
Around 2000 AD
Who traveled to China and wrote about it in 1270?
Marco Polo
What was the Commercial Revolution?
Caused age of discovery and trade during 1300-1500
Who set up school of navigation and sailed below Africa?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled below Cape of Good Hope around 1490?
Bartholomew Dias
Bartholomew Dias was a follower of who?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who traveled all the way under the Cape of Good Hope and up to India around 1500?
Vasco Da Gamma
Who got rich by traveling to India?
, Vasco Da Gamma
Who was Christopher Columbus financially supported by?
Ferdinand and Isabella
Where did Christopher Columbus land thinking he was in the Indies?
Cuba
Who was the Mapmaker America was accidentally named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
What was the line called that was drawn by the Pope to settle the dispute over who got what
between Spain and Portugal?
Line of Demarcation
Who discovered Panama?
Balboa
Who settled the first French settlement in the New World around 1600?
Samuel de Champlain
Where was the first French settlement located?
Along the banks of the St. Lawrence River- named Quebec
What was the most valuable trade item of New France?
Fur
Why didn't New France attract many settlers?
Weather was cold and poor for farming
What was the first Dutch settlement called established around 1610?
New Amsterdam
What disease traveled from the new world to the old world during the Columbian Exchange?
Syphilis. The rest traveled from the old world to the new world
How did the Early Chesapeake differ from the Spanish MOdel of Settlement?
1) Lacked stable family and institutional structure
2) Lacked element of permanence
3) More focused on gold, glory, and God (spreading the Catholic faith)
Who wrote "Discourse of Western Planting" to Queen Elizabeth to encourage her to get involved in
the New World?
