STUDY GUIDE – Chapter 1: Expanding Horizons
Vocabulary
1. circumnavigate
2. Columbian
Exchange
3. representative
gov’t
4. scientific
method
5. Crusade
6. missions
7. astrolabe
8. mercantilism
9. Ten
Commandments
10. sugarcane
11. capitalism
12. joint-stock
companies
13. Renaissance
VIP (Very Important People)
1. Charles de
Montesquieu
2. Martin Luther
3. Vasco da Gama
4. Marco Polo
5. Hernan Cortes
6. Thomas Aquinas
7. Thomas Hobbs
8. John Locke
9. John Calvin
10. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
11. Christopher
Columbus
12. Bartolome de
Las Casas
13. Prince Henry
Main Ideas
 Know and understand what inventions led to
transatlantic exploration.
 Know and understand what influenced the Declaration of
Independence.
 Know and understand who the American colonies modeled
their gov’t after.
 Know and understand the purpose of conquistadors
exploring America.
 Know and understand what led to the development of a
system of banking.
 Know and understand the purpose of Magellan’s trip to
the Americas.
 Know and understand how the center of Nat’l power
shifted in the 1600’s.
 Know and understand why merchants traded with the
Middle East
 Know and understand how the focus of Portuguese and
Spanish explorers differed.
Things to Know (these will be discussed in class and
an interactive format can be found on Google
Classroom:
Who believed reason should be used to explore questions of faith?
Who spent 17 years in China working for Kublai Khan?
What is a system in which money is invested in business to make more
money?
What is the theory that a nation becomes powerful by building up a
supply of gold and silver?
Who destroyed the Aztec Empire?
What is the name of the system in which people elect delegates to
conduct government?
What is the name of the device that measures the position of the stars?
Europeans enslaved millions of Africans to plant and harvest this crop
Who argued that absolute monarchy was the best form of government?
Who believed that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the
Atlantic Ocean?
Portuguese explorers were different from Spanish explorers because they
focused on...
The American colonists modeled their legislatures on ...
Why did conquistadors explore the Americas?
Who started Protestantism?
The acceptance of _______ led to the development of colonies in the
Americas
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Who started Protestantism?
John Calvin believed that...
Who laid the ground work for a new era of exploration?
Merchants who wanted to invest in exploration raised money by doing
what?
The Renaissance began in Italy because…
What caused the death of millions of Native Americans?
The English Bill of Rights declared that the king could not…
The English Bill of Rights limited
Essay Questions (you will have one of the following
to answer on your test)
1. Compare and contrast the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John
Locke.
2. Why were Spanish conquistadors so successful in
conquering native peoples?