Heritage Studies Ch 2 Test Review

1. a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location

• A. caravan
• B. compass
• C. quadrant

2. a group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods

• A. caravan
• B. compass
• C. quadrant

3. an invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing

• A. caravan
• B. compass
• C. quadrant

4. Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?

• Peter Stuyvesant
• John Winthrop
• Dias
• Las Casas

5. Who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492?

• Columbus
• Da Gama
• Dias
• Las Casas

6. Who wrote about the treatment of the American Indians?

• Powhatan
• Da Gama
• Dias
• Las Casas

7. Who made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields?

• Columbus
• John Smith
• Dias
• John Winthrop

8. Who governed New Netherland?

• Peter Stuyvesant
• Da Gama
• John Smith
• Las Casas

9. The first person to sail from Europe to India was _____.

• Vasco da Gama
• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• pope
• Puritans

10. It was declared that Indians were humans with soul by the ___________.

• pope
• Vasco da Gama
• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• Puritans