GIGLIOTTI'S REVIEW QUESTIONS

 

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION REVIEW QUESTIONS!

 

1. WHO WAS THE 1ST EUROPEAN TO SAIL AROUND THE TIP OF AFRICA?

2. WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT MALI?

3. WHAT IS THE SOUTHERN MOST TIP OF AFRICA CALLED? OF SOUTH AMERICA CALLED?

4. WHO WAS THE 1ST EUROPEAN TO SAIL TO INDIA?

5. WHAT IS A QUADRANT, A COMPASS, AND AN ASTROLABE?

6. IN WHAT DIRECTION DID COLUMBUS SAIL TO THE NEW WORLD?

7. WHAT PRODUCTS DID EUROPEANS WANT FROM ASIA?

8. WHAT MOUNTAIN RANGE CAN BE FOUND IN SOUTH AMERICA?

9. WHAT WAS THE LINE OF DEMARCATION?

10. WHY DO NATIONS ESTABLISH COLONIES?

11. WHAT DID EUROPEANS TRADE FOR IN AFRICA (3 THINGS)?

12. WHAT IS A CARAVEL? WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL?

13. WHAT IS A CARTOGRAPHER?

14. WHO WAS AMERIGO VESPUCCI?

15. WHERE WAS COLUMBUS BORN?

16. COLUMBUS SAILED FOR WHICH COUNTRY?

17. WHAT DID COLUMBUS BELIEVE ABOUT THE WORLD?

18. WHO WERE THE KING & QUEEN OF SPAIN IN 1492?

19. IN WHAT MODERN NATION DID COLUMBUS LAND?

20. WHO WAS PRINCE HENRY?

21. COLUMBUS NAMED THE ISLAND HE FIRST DISCOVERED?

22. THE SPANISH FORT WAS HISPANIOLA WAS CALLED?

23. HOW DID COLUMBUS FEEL ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICANS?

24. WHY WAS COLUMBUS A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE?

25. WHERE IS COLUMBUS BURIED?

26. WHAT WERE THE NAMES OF COLUMBUS'S SHIPS?

27. WHO WAS BALBOA? CORTEZ? PIZARRO?

28. WHO SEARCHED FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?

29. WHO WAS CABOT? VARRENZANO? CARTIER? HUDSON? FROBISHER?

30. WHAT IS AN ISTHMUS?

31. WHAT IS THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE?

32. IN WHAT MODERN NATION DID THE AZTECS LIVE? THE INCA? WHO WERE THEIR LEADERS?

33. WHAT DID CORTEZ & PIZARRO DO? (DETAILS)

34. WHO WAS MAGELLAN?

35. WHAT DOES CIRCUMNAVIGATE MEAN?

36. WHERE ARE THE STRAIGHTS OF MAGELLAN LOCATED?

37. WHAT DID BALBOA NAME HIS DISCOVERY?

38. WHO WAS SIR FRANCIS DRAKE? THE ENGLISH SEA DOGS?

39. WHAT WAS THE SPANISH ARMADA?

40. WHAT THREE THINGS DID COLUMBUS WANT FROM THE KING?

41. WHAT MOTIVATED EUROPEANS TO EXPLORE?

 

ESSAY: WHY WERE THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORES SO EASILY ABLE TO DEFEAT THE AZTEC & THE INCA?