BJU Heritage Studies Chapter 2 Test Review

A tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location

• caravan

• compass

• quadrant

• GPS

A group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods

• caravan

• compass

• quadrant

• company

An invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing

• caravan

• compass

• quadrant

• GPS

Explored the coast of Africa for Portugal

• Peter Stuyvesant

• John Winthrop

• Dias

• Las Casas

Set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492

• Columbus

• Da Gama

• Dias

• Las Casas

Wrote about the treatment of American Indians

• Powhatan

• Da Gama

• Dias

• Las Casas

Made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields

• Columbus

• John Smith

• Dias

• John Winthrop

Governed New Netherland

• Peter Stuyvesant

• Da Gama

• John Smith

• Las Casas

First person to sail from Europe to India

• John Winthrop

• John Smith

• Vasco Da Gama

• Las Casas

Declared that Indians were humans with souls

• Columbus

• Da Gama

• Pope

• Puritans