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HIST1301: Fall 2019 Textbook Quiz 2 Chapters 2 Due: September 19th 1) In Portugal, Prince Henry the Navigator spearheaded his country’s exploration of Africa and the Atlantic in the 1400s. 2) This Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, realized the Americas were not a part of Asia but lands unknown to Europeans. 3) The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 drew a north to south line through South America where Spain got the territory west of the line and Portugal retained the lands east of the line including the country of Brazil. 5) Cortés renamed the city of Tenochtitlan this: Mexico City. 6) A person with mixed indigenous American and European descent is known as a Mestizo. 7) The explorer Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and founded the city of Lima, Peru. 8) Catholic dominance in Europe began to decline in Europe after the Protestant Reformation which led to a split among European Christians. 9) Martin Luther was upset with the Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences, which were documents that absolved people of their sins. 10) This group wanted to erase all traces of Catholicism from the Church of England: Puritans. 11) England’s first attempt to colonize the Americas was in Roanoke, an island off the west coast of present-day North Carolina. 12) Barbados became one of England’s most important colonies because of this crop: Sugar. 13) The Pilgrims wanted to separate from the Church of England completely earning them the title of Separatists. 14) The Black Legend is the idea that the Spanish were bloodthirsty conquerors with no regard for human life. 15) The idea of Mercantilism said that there was only a limited amount of wealth in the world and in order to gain power nations had to get raw materials from their colonial possessions. 16) The two-way exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe/ Africa is known as the Columbian Exchange....