World History Assignment Guide and Key Points

 

Chapter 17 "Explorers and Explorations"

 

Lesson 1 "Europeans Search for New Trade Routes"

Turn to Page 424-425, quickly look over both pages and read the introduction to the chapter on Page 424.

While on Page 424 read the goals for the chapter.

Turn to Page 425 and read about the Geography of Toscanelli's Map, 1474

Scan Pages 426-427; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 426-427 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Turn to Page 427 and read the questions at the end of the section so you know what to look for when you read.

Read Pages 426-427 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 427? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "Europeans Search for New Trade Routes" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

navigation - the science of planning and directing the route of a ship

 

Section Review Answers

    1. False / Italy or Itallian city-states
    2. True
    3. False / western
    4. True
    5. True

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to explain why and how Portugal sought a new route to China and India?

 

Lesson 2 "Exploring New Lands"

Scan Pages 428-432; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 428-432 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

On page 432 Read the question so you know what to look for while you are reading.

Read Pages 428-432 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 432? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "Exploring New Lands" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

finance - to provide the money for something

exploration - the act of looking around some unknown place.

profit - the amount of money left over after paying for the cost of doing business

expedition - a long journey of discovery

native - someone born in a particular place

strait - a narrow strip of water that connects two bigger bodies of water.

 

Section Review Answers

  1. The weather was bad at the tip. The trip to the southern tip of Africa also took a long time.
  2. Columbus had this plan.
  3. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India by sailing around Africa.
  4. The Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish sent ships to China.
  5. Magellan led the three-year expedition that proved the world was round.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe the journeys of Columbus, da Gama, and Magelan?

 

Lesson 3 "The Spanish Conquer Two Empires in America"

Scan Pages 433-436; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 433-436 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

On page 436 Read the question so you know what to look for while you are reading.

Read Pages 433-436 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 436? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 3 "The Spanish Conquer Two Empires in America" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

conquistador - a spanich conqueror; a person seeking gold and glory.

convert - to change one's religion to another religion or another belief.

negotiate - to talk together, make bargains, and agree on something.

immunity - a natural protection against a disease

 

 

Section Review Answers

  1. God
  2. Aztecs
  3. Montezuma
  4. Atahualpa
  5. Pizarro

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you list three reasons why Spaniards came to the New World?

 

Lesson 4 "Spain Establishes Colonies in America"

Scan Pages 437-439; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 437-439 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

On page 439 Read the question so you know what to look for while you are reading.

Read Pages 437-439 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 439? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 4 "Spain Establishes Colonies in America" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 4 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

descendant - a person who comes from a specific group of people.

encomienda - the Spanish system of forcing Native Americans to do physical work on plantations.

plantation - a large area of farmland

viceroy - an official who governs land for the king or queen

import - to bring into a country something or someone from another place.

 

Section Review Answers

  1. b
  2. a
  3. d
  4. c
  5. c

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to explain how Spain governed its colonial lands in the Americas?

Can you describe the relationship between Spanish landowners and the people who worked for them?

 

 

Lesson 5 "The Growth of the Slave Trade"

Scan Pages 440-442; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 440-442 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

On page 442 Read the question so you know what to look for while you are reading.

Read Pages 440-442 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 442? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 5 "The Growth of the Slave Trade" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 5 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

slavery - the owning of human beings with the belief that they are property.

abolish - to get rid of something;to say that something is no longer legal, or lawful.

 

 

Section Review Answers

  1. True
  2. True
  3. False / 300
  4. False / 1713
  5. True

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to explain why Portugal introduced Afrcan slavery into the New World?

Can you describe how slaves were brought to the Americas and the conditions in which they lived?

 

 

Lesson 6 "The Results of Exploring and Establishing Colonies"

Scan Pages 443-446; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 443-446 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

On page 446 Read the question so you know what to look for while you are reading.

Read Pages 443-446 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 446? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 6 "The Results of Exploring and Establishing Colonies" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 6 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

colonist - a peson who settles in a colony

majority - more than half of a group of people or group of things.

Mayflower Compact - the agreement made by the Pilgrims that set up a form of government for their new colony

Pilgrim - a person who came to North America for religious freedom and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Settlement - A colony; a group of people who had left one place and settled in another place.

Economic - having to do with money.

Starvation - the act of dying from not hving enough food to eat.

 

 

Section Review Answers

  1. Corn and potatoes became important food for the world.
  2. Jamestown was the first permanent English colony.
  3. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement the Pilgrims made among themselves. They agreed to base their government on majority rule.
  4. the French established colonies in Canada and in the lower Mississippi Valley
  5. By 1763, England came to dominate half of the North Amercan continent.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to describe the growth of European colonies in the Americas?

Can you list the plants grown in the Amercas that made life different for people around the word?

 

 

 

 Preparing for Chapter 17 Test

Turn to Page 447 and read the article on "How the Spaniards Treated the Native Americans".

Turn to Page 448 and read the spotlight story, "Diseases in Human History "

Turn to Page 449 and read the Chapter 17 summary.

On pages 450-451 you will find the Chapter 17 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 17 Test "Explorers and Explorations"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

 

Chapter 17 Review answers

  1. Prince Henry
  2. Dias
  3. Columbus
  4. da Gama
  5. Magellan
  6. Cortes
  7. Montezuma
  8. Pizarro
  9. Las Casas
  10. Sir Walter Raleigh

Comprehension: Multiple Choice

  1. d
  2. a
  3. c
  4. d
  5. c

Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas:

  1. The overland trade routes to India and China had made the Italian city-states wealthy. Portugal and Spain wanted money too, so they looked for water route to the East.
  2. Native Americans died because the Spanish landowners and mine owners were cruel and mistreated them. They overworked the Native Americans and took away their will to live. Also, the conquistadores brought disease with them. Native Americans had no immunities to these diseases, so they died.
  3. In the Americas, Native Americans introduced Europeans to corn, potatoes, tomoatoes, cacao, lima beans, and tobacco. Around the world, people found that growing corn and potatoes was easy, so they had more to eat and the population increased.

Congratulations you finished the seventeenth chapter !!