European Exploration

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for exploration?

• Individual fame in service to God, Church and ruler
• Wanted to find a water route to Asia to cut out the Middle Man (Muslims) in trading
• Zeal to convert unbelievers to Christianity 
• They wanted to find the lost city of Atlantis 

Which is NOT a condition that favored exploration at this time?

• Financial interest of rulers in overseas adventures
• New Technology and better boats
• Renaissance values of interest in the natural and physical world
• The invention of the GPS

What was happening in Europe during this same time period?

• Renaissance, Reformations, and Scientific Revolution
• Feudalism and the Middle Ages
• Fighting over Russia
• Industrial Revolution

Tool that measured the depth of water and the nature of the bottom. Line was weighted with lead and had graduated markings to determine sea depth. The lead was coated with wax to bring up samples of the bottom.

• Chip Log
• Compass
• Chronometer 
• Lead Line

Line knotted at regular intervals and weighted to drag in the water. It was tossed overboard as the pilot counted the knots that were let out during a specific period of time. From this he could determine the speed the vessel was moving. 

• Chip Log
• Compass
• Chronometer 
• Lead Line

The development of an accurate _________ lead to the ability to determine longitude while at sea. 

• watch/time-keeping device
• compass
• Maps

1513, from Spain, Man in search of gold. He crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Once there he claimed the ocean and all the land that it touched for Spain. 

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco Nunez Balbao
• John Cabot 
• Jaques Cartier

1492, sailing for Spain even though he was Italian, he thought he had found the East Indies (in Asia) so when he met the people in the Caribbean Islands he called them Indians. 

• Christopher Columbus 
• Henry Hudson 
• Juan Ponce De Leon
• Jaques Cartier

The mother culture of Mesoamerica; they were the first civilization in Mesoamerica and their culture (practices/religion) influenced future peoples in Mesoamerica like the Aztec and Mayans. 

• Toltec
• Olmec
• Native Americans
• Mexicans

Which of the following is NOT something that the Olmecs passed on to future generations living in Mesoamerica?

• Human Sacrifice
• Christianity 
• Ball Game
• Chocolate Drinking