Ch.2 Podcast Review

Ch.2 Podcast Review
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Ch. 2 Review –
European Exploration of America
Student DJ – Jenna S.

P.roactive E.ngaged E.lectronic L.earning - "P.e.e.l. Practice".
Click on the correct answers and then click "submit answers" at the bottom of the page.
Choose the BEST answer for each of the questions below. You may also work with a partner and use the Authentic Cooperative Learning (ACL) stations in HistoryClassroom.com in order to preview, learn, and review the material.

Viking explorer who led several voyages to lands south and west of Greenland and who may have landed on the North American coast.
Your answer:
Samuel de Champlain
Hernando Cortes
Leif Ericson
Estevanica
Explorer who traveled the entire length of the Mississippi River and claimed the region for France.
Your answer:
Leif Erickson
Estevanica
Samuel de Champlain
Sieur de La Salle
Period of rebirth of learning that took place in Europe.
Your answer:
Renaissance
Estevanica
Immunity
Vice Royalties
European nation that sponsored many voyages of exploration BEFORE the discovery of America.
Your answer:
United States
Portugal
France
spain
Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztecs and destroyed the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan.
Your answer:
Samuel de Champlain
Leif Erickson
Estevanica
Hernando Cortes
Term for the exchange, the buying, the selling, and the trading of goods on a large scale.
Your answer:
Renaissance
Commerce
Immunity
Vice Royalties
Political divisions of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, ruled by appointed governors.
Your answer:
Portugal
Renaissance
Estevanica
Vice Royalties
Europeans who worked to spread the Roman Catholic religion in the Americas.
Your answer:
Taliban
Vice Royalties
Hernando Cortes
Spanish priests
French explorer who founded Quebec - the first permanent french settlement in North America.
Your answer:
Samuel de Champlain
Leif Ericson
Hernando Cortes
Sieur de La Salle
Resistance to infectious diseases, such as measles, smallpox, and typus.
Your answer:
Renaissance
Computer Bug
Vice Royalties
Immunity
According to the book, absolute positive firm archaeological evidence of Viking landings in North America has...
Your answer:
been found in Itasca.
been found in Minnesota by the Vikings football team.
been found on Baffle Island.
not yet been found.
By about 1000 a.d., an increase in trade throughout Europe was brought about, in part, by...
Your answer:
the birth of the beatles.
the Crusades.
a rebirth in learning.
the development of self-sufficient manors.
The two goals of the Spanish monarchs in sponsoring ages of exploration were to...
Your answer:
gain new land and spread Christianity.
gain glory and skill in navigation.
establish a world trade system and build a profitable fur trade.
help 7th grade Spanish students in their language development.
Spain's exploration and colonization of the Americas during the 1500's were challenged by few European nations because...
Your answer:
of a general shortage of trained sea captains.
other European nations were more concerned with farming.
Spain was the weakest country in Europe.
Spain was the strongest military power in Europe at that time.
The economies of the French and Dutch colonies in North America were generally based upon...
Your answer:
trading Elvis records.
fur trading.
agriculture.
mining.
The main trading center of New France was located in ...
Your answer:
Green Bay
on the "Great Wall of History" in HistoryClassroom.com
Montreal
Quebec
The leaders of New France sent Marquette and Joliet to explore the Mississippi River in the hope that the explorers would find...
Your answer:
gold and silver.
a water passage across North America to the Pacific Ocean.
the Gulf of Mexico.
a student who would dare to wear a PACKERS shirt to Mr. Peel's classroom.
As the supply of gold and silver from Spanish mines declined and the Spanish wars of conquest in the Americas ended, Spain's...
Your answer:
started trading LP records from the Beatles.
power and influence declined.
colonies turned to fur trading.
explorers opened new mines in the Far East.
The main economic activities of the Spanish colonies in Central and South America were...
Your answer:
agriculture and mining.
shipbuilding and manufacturing.
fishing and the fur trade.
selling hot dogs at the Bears Games.
During the 1500's, Spain's reliance upon wealth from its colonies in the Americas led to...
Your answer:
Spain's failure to build a system of commerce.
increased trade with nations of the Far East.
increased trade with the United States.
increased trade with other European nations.

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