5 Written Questions

1. warlike people who lived in central mexico, capital is now mexico city, fasioned their own gold jewelry
2. an italian navigator from florence, made two voyages to the new world and wrotea a vivid account of the lands, America is named after him , his name first appeared on maps in 1507
3. came from northern china and siberia, earths wat froze and the sea level was lowered in the bering strait, then they could walk across from siberia to alaska - 56 miles
4. dorantes black slave, hired by fray marcos to help find cibola, killed by indains
5. succeeded in rounding the cape of good hope at the souther tip of africa, sailed for portugalz

5 Matching Questions

1. columbus
2. john cabot
3. anasazi
4. bjarni herjulfson
5. one thing that columbus knew

1. a believed to be cannibals, AKA pueblo indians because they built something similar to an apartment building known as a pueblo and they were made of adobe, made textiles, pottery and baskets and lived in the south west
2. b that the earth was round, but he didnt know how big it was.
3. c set out for greenland but missed it and came upon a shore covered in woods, norse voyages did not reach europe so no europeans knew of america until columbus
4. d sailed in 1492 - born in genoa italy, first european to discover america, named san salvador, cruel to indians,sailed for spain
5. e sailed for england, manned a small vessel called the Mathew, sailed into north atlantic and established the wuickest round trip to the new world

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. columbus called his voyage to china going west this because it was not only a voyage but a money making expedition
   1. prince henry
   2. enterprise of the indies
   3. Amerigo Vespucci
   4. treaty of tordesillas
2. columbus thought that he landed here when he was in hispanola, Cathay is AKA china
   1. balboa
   2. mayas
   3. cathay
   4. cartier
3. lived in belize, guatemala, honduras and mexico, invented their own writing, built pyramids and temples, built their own obervatories,
   1. dias
   2. mayas
   3. incas
   4. cathay
4. smuggled himself away from creditors and on a ship to panama, married an indian chiefs daughter, claimed the south sea for spain
   1. balboa
   2. columbus
   3. mayas
   4. cathay
5. sailed for spain, landed in peru with 180 men, kidnapped incan emperor and demanded room full of gold, after he got gold he killed the king and the incan empire fell
   1. marco polo
   2. anasazi
   3. prince henry
   4. francisco pizzarro

5 True/False Questions

1. marco polo → sailed for italy traveled with his father and went to china and stayed for 17 years. brought back gold, silk, and jewels and he wrote a book which enticed columbus

   True        False

2. prince henry → sailed for portugal, known as the navigator, set up school for explorers at cape st. vincent, he gathered maps and charts, and improved ships

   True        False

3. cortes → conquered the aztecs with guns and diesease, he brought spain back gold and it was then realized that the new world was more than a continent in the way

   True        False

4. incas → lived in peru, constructed pallaces with high walls, connected their towns with roads, built terraces to farm, gave us the potato and the tomato, built irrigation systems, had very organized government, capital is cuzco

   True        False

5. cartier → conquered the aztecs with guns and diesease, he brought spain back gold and it was then realized that the new world was more than a continent in the way

   True        False