AMH UNIT 1-8 QUIZ
After sailing westward, in what part of the world did Columbus think he had landed? - ✔✔Asia
(East Indies)
After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and
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AMH UNIT 1-8 QUIZ
After sailing westward, in what part of the world did Columbus think he had landed? - ✔✔Asia
(East Indies)
After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and
treasure in the New World, leading to his circumnavigation of the world in 1577. - ✔✔Drake
In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire. -
✔✔Francisco Pizarro
In 1682, this French explorer traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
and claimed all that land for France. - ✔✔Robert la Salle
Supposedly looking for the mythical "fountain of youth", this Spanish conquistador explored
present day Florida. - ✔✔Ponce de Leon
this Pueblo shaman/holy man led a revolt against the Spanish and drove them out of New
Mexico - ✔✔Pope'
He established the first permanent French settlement in North America and founded Quebec as
the capital of "New France". - ✔✔Samuel de Champlain
These were land holdings, whereby Spanish conquistadors and overlords brutally controlled
Indian land and labor. - ✔✔ecomiendas
He landed in Mexico in 1519, and led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. - ✔✔Hernando
Cortez
He sailed the coast of the New World in 1499 and determined it to be a new continental mass -
✔✔Amerigo Vespucc
England would base her later claims to New World territories on his explorations beginning in
1497. - ✔✔John Cabot
These people were the first Europeans to discover and explore the New World, some 500 years
before the "Age of discovery". - ✔✔Scandinavians
This was the great capital city of the Aztecs that was captured by the Spanish, leading to the
downfall of the Empire. - ✔✔Tenochtitan
This refers to the transfer of plants, animals, culture, and disease between Europe, Africa, and the
New World after discovery. - ✔✔Columbian exchange
Study Guide question - Which best describes the factors that drove the European discovery and
exploration of the New World. - ✔✔The desire for conquest, gain in wealth, and rise of nation
states
This was one of the few known 'Inca' strongholds that was not discovered by the Spanish. -
✔✔Machu Picchu
He founded Georgia Colony in 1733 as a utopia, where rum and slavery were banned, and there
was religious freedom - ✔✔James Oglethorpe
Granted land in 1681, he would create a colony built upon Quaker principles of toleration and
form an elected government structure that allowed f
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