SocialStudies Chap1&2 Test
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- The first European explorers to rech the shores of North America?
- Scandinavian vikings led by Leif Eriksson
- The Inuit and Aleut used doglseds and one-person canoes called
- kayaks
- Soldiers and lords who gave their services for land were
- vassals
- Children of peasants were born into an economic and social position that...
- determined their status as peasants when they grew up
- Paleo-Indians who first migrated into North American were
- hunter-gatherers
- Symbols and images that represent ideas are
- glyphs
- climates and landscapes that surround living things are called
- environments
- the christians who embarked on the crusades were urged to do so by
- Pope Urban II
- One of the first documents to help protect the rights of free individuals was
- Magna Carta
- Gradual changes in technology, trade and political powere brought about the
- end of Europe's middle ages
- A common European name for the lands of Asia was
- the Indies
- Columbus' 1492 voyage from the Canary Islands across the unknown waters of the Atlantic
- ended 33 days after he set sail
- Spain's all-water route to Asia that columbus sought in 1492 was discovered
- 30 years later when Magellan's crew circumnavigated Earth
- Henry Hudson was an English captain who sailed under the flas of
- England and the Dutch
- The European race for a sea route to Asia was won by
- Portugal
- The north American area explored in the 1500s by Jacques Cartier was
- what is now called Canada
- Soon after Da Gama reached southwest India the Portuguese
- realized they were dealing with a culture that had traded with Muslim and Italian merchants for hundreds of years
- Merchants who invested in a joint-stock company were able to
- raise money for new ventures and reduce the indivual risk of starting a business
- After Balboa discovered the South Sea and made peace with the American Indians in what is now Panama
- Spanish authorities had him executed for treason
- The South Sea was renamed the Pacific by
- Magellan
- The Cape of Good Hope was named by
- Bartolomeu Dias
- As a reult of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Brazil
- was placed under Portuguese control
- MAgellan discovered the passage he sought through South America at
- the southern tip of the continent
- The rebirth of european interest in the arts and learing of ancient greek and rome is known as
- Renaissance
- Cabral, whose fleet was blown off course as he followed de Gama's route to India,
- accidentally discovered the coast of what is now Brazil
- How did the Commerical revolution change the way merchants conducted business?
- Merchants became more aggressive about adjusting prices in order to make profits
- The Renaissance combined new ideas about art society, science and technology with the rediscovery of
- ancient greek and roman works
- Commanded the Ming fleet that brought wealth an knowledge of other cultures to China
- Zheng He
- Remains of objects made by humans
- artifacts
- common values and traditions of a society
- culture
- settlement established by a culture or society
- colony
- climates and landscapes that surround living things
- environments
- system of government in which people pledge loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection
- feudalism
- study of the unwritten past
- archeology
- religion that strengthened cultural ties across Europe during the Middle Ages
- Christianity
- religion that spread by military conquest and along trade networks
- islam
- groups that share traditions, values and organizing structures
- societies
- to sail completey around
- circumnavigate
- boundary of Spain's exploration and monopoly rights
- Line of Demarcation
- money or property that is used to earn money
- capital
- path around or through north america thta would allow ships to sail from atlantic to the pacific
- Northwest passage
- small but sturdy ship built to be very maneuverable and fast
- caravel
- change the religious beliefs of a person
- convert
- allowed navigators to determine thier ship's position by charting the position of the stars
- astrolabe
- narrow, winding sea passage
- strait
- sole economic control
- monopoly
- royal governor of Spanish lands
- viceroy