History 1st Study Guide
~Chapter 1
-Marco Polo- was responsible for stirring European interest in China (Orient) prior to the age of discovery; his prison cell-mate (Rustichello) wrote down all stories
-Christopher Columbus- was an Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and discovered the new world; died thinking he had found China
-Bartolomeu Dias- was the explorer from Portugal who was the 1st to sail around the southern tip of Africa
-Vasco de Gama- was the Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa to India and returned with cargo 60 xs’s more than the cost of his expedition
-Amerigo Vespucci- was the explorer who made two trips to America and realized that there was a land mass between Europe and Asia; America named after him
-Magellan- was the 1st explorer to circumnavigate the earth
-John Cabot- was the Italian who sailed for England and reached Newfoundland and claimed the North American coast for England
America was discovered on October 12, 1492.
-Martin Luther- was the German monk who started the Protestant Reformation
-Hernando Cortez- was the 1st great conquistador (conqueror) and conquered the Aztecs
-Coronado- was the Spanish conquistador who explored Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and up to Kansas looking for the 7 Cities of Cibola
-Protestant Reformation- was the religious movement that was started in Wittenberg, Germany that changed the course of the Christian movement
-Montezuma- was the Aztec King that was conquered by the Spanish conquistador
-Ponce de Leon- was the 1st Spaniard to explore the Florida peninsula
-Philip the II- was the King of Spain and built Spain into a world of power
-De Soto- was the 1st conquistador to explore from Florida to South Carolina to the Mississippi River
-Sea Dogs- was the name of Sir Francis Drake and his cousin who attacked the Spanish
-Sir Francis Drake- was the English Sea Dog who raided and looted Spanish outposts in the New World and defeated the Spanish Armada...