World History Chapter 14

Question 1: What group of Islands were the source of the spices that Europeans wanted from the east?  *** Azores Moluccas West Indies

Question 2.  Who was the leader that pushed Portugal to explore south along Africa as their route to the east:     

Question  3.  Who actually was the first to make it around the southern tip of Africa for Portugal? 

Question 4. What explorer took the spice port of Calicut for Portugal? 

Question 5:  What country is Christopher Columbus from? 

Question 6:  What country did Christopher Columbus sail for in 1492?   

Question 7:  What did Columbus think he had discovered? *** East Indies West Indies Hispaniola

Question 8:  What country did Spain come in conflict over who should control the New World with?: *** France Britain Portugal

Question 9: Who claimed all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain?  *** Chritopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan Vasco de Balboa

Question 10 & 11:  Name two of Columbus's ships?

Question 12: Who is credited as the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Question 13:  What was the treaty that the Pope had to work out between Portugal and Spain concerning the Atlantic Ocean?

Question 14:  What was the line the Pope drew down the Atlantic from the previous question called?