This document provides a chapter-by-chapter summary of a historical text about early global encounters between different peoples. It outlines key people, places, and events discussed in each chapter, such as Vikings traveling from Scandinavia to settle in Newfoundland between 960-1000 CE. It also summarizes the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan being the first to circumnavigate the globe, and the impacts of the Columbian Exchange, in which biological and cultural exchanges occurred following 1492 between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. The document is intended to help students engage with and understand the content through prompts related to each chapter.

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Chapter Walk-Through
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the questions/prompts. This is a short, fun way to learn interesting stuff! Enjoy your walk!
CHAPTER 13Let’s turn north
1. (p. 60) In a small boat, it was easy to believe that a storm was a____________________.
2. What country between Canada and Europe is still in the Ice Age and covered by a glacier 2
miles thick?_______________________________________________________________
3. Define loot: ______________________________________________________________
4. (p. 61) The ______________________,also called Norsemen, were the first to travel to
North America between 960-1000 CE. They traveled from Scandinavia to their settlement
named _____________________, which is modern day Newfoundland.
5. What did Norsemen fear?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
6. Read the passage from Erik The Red. Highlightevidence of trading with Native Americans.
At the beginning of spring they saw one morning early a fleet of skin canoes…Karlsefni
(Viking) and his men raised their shields, and they began to trade: the people wanted
particularly to buy red cloth, in exchange for which they offered skins and gray furs. They
wished to also buy swords and spears, but Karlsefni and Snorri (Viking) forbade this.
7. Describe a Viking ship.
__________________________________________________________________________
8. (p. 63) What did Archeologists dig up in 1904 near Vestfold, Norway? _______________
9. A Viking princess used that Viking ship for pleasure cruises. It was also used as her:
_________________________________________________________________________
10. Define fossil:_______________________________________________________________
11. (p. 64) List 4 artifacts that archeologists found in the 1960s in L’Anse aux Meadows on the
NE tip of Newfoundland, Canada?
_________________________________________________________________________
12. (p. 65) What evidence may prove the Vikings may have made it to Minnesota (may be a
fake)?
_________________________________________________________________________
13. Do you think Vikings in boats could have gone that far? ___________________________
NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS (TECHNOLOGY) Quick SKETCH
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Definitions
Quadrant:
Back Staff:
Magnetic Compass:
Astrolabe:
Sextant:
Cross Staff:
CHAPTER 14 The Power of the press
1. (p. 67) Read the 1st paragraph & CLOSE THE GAPS: When you see the “12th century” it
means the years that begin with _______. The numbers are ALWAYS _________years
behind the ________________________________________________________________.
3. In 1456 Johannes Gutenberg re-invented the printing press (Koreans and the Chinese had
been using movable type for centuries). The first book he printed is known as the
___________________ _____________.
4. (p. 68) What does a scribe do?_________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
5. How do books give power to the people?
_____________________________________________________________________________
6. Why is the 15th century the 1st “Information Age?”
_____________________________________________________________________________
7. (p. 69) How were the Chinese ahead of Europeans?
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CHAPTER 15 A boy named Christopher has a dream
1. (p. 70) Columbus’ Nina and Pinta were __________________________________________
2. Columbus would have been in 8th grade when he 1st went to sea. How old was he and
what happened?____________________________________________________________
3. (p. 71) ________________________ is another name for longitude because they measure
___________________.
4. What lines run horizontally across the globe? _____________________________________
5. What lines run vertically (up & down)? __________________________________________
6. Where does the author live? Provide latitude & longitude.
_________________________________________________________________________
7. ________________________, a Greek mathematician was in charge of the library in
Alexandria, Egypt, ______centuries before Columbus lived. He figured out the size of the
_______________ and got it right! A few centuries later, _______________________had
other ideas about the size of the Earth.
8. (p. 73) _________________, the famous Greek astronomer-geographer-mathematician,
drew the original map that gave ___________________his ideas of how the world looked.
9. The Iberian Peninsula is modern day ___________________ and ___________________.
10. During the 15th century, who ruled the Iberian peninsula & neighboring Aragon?
_________________________________ and ___________________________________
11. According to Ptolemy the ____________________was at the CENTER of the Solar System.
Copernicus disagreed and believed the ____________ was the CENTER of the universe.
CHAPTER 16A New Land is “Discovered”
1. (p. 75) What was Columbus’ Italian name at birth? _______________________________
2. (p. 76) Columbus discovered that magnets don’t point north. Where do they point?
__________________________________________________________________________
3. Define mutiny:______________________________________________________________
Example of mutiny:__________________________________________________________
5. What was the role of cabin boys?
_________________________________________________________________________
6. (p. 77) What was King Ferdinand of Spain watching from his side of the Atlantic?
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_________________________________________________________________________
7. Why do you think the Taino (Natives) fled from Columbus?
__________________________________________________________________________
8. Columbus sighted land after ________days at sea.
(p. 78) Why isn’t Columbus looking through a telescope?
__________________________________________________________________________
9. Define immunity:____________________________________________________________
11. Many people believed that the Carib (“valiant people” in their language) were
_________________________. Who feared the Carib? ____________________________
12. How does this explain why the Taino were eager to help Columbus?
__________________________________________________________________________
13. (p. 79) Native Americans in Hispaniola slept in ____________________, which were useful
on a ship and unknown to _____________________________until Columbus met Natives.
CH. 17The next voyage
1. (p. 80) What did the ocean say to Columbus?___________________________________________
2. Why were the Europeans wrong in calling America the “new world”
________________________________________________________________________________
3. (p. 82) How did Indians prepare a corn liquor drink?
________________________________________________________________________________
4. THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD:
________________________________________________________________________________
5. THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: NEW WORLD TO OLD WORLD:
________________________________________________________________________________
CH. 18 STOWAWAYS: WORMS & A DOG
1. (p. 85) How did Columbus trick Indians into helping him? ______________________________
2. Read the 1st 2 paragraphs. How did worms attack Columbus and his men?
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3. (p. 86) Balboa, known as a _____________________________ (Spanish conqueror), made it
across the jungles and mountains of ________________________without losing men. His
stowaway _______, Leoncico, made it too!
4. (p. 87) Balboa was the 1st European to see the Pacific’s __________________________coast.
CH. 19 sailing around the world
1. (p. 89) Pacific means_____________________________________________________________.
2. Who was Patagon?_______________________________________________________________
3. Why did Magellan and his crew call the South American Natives Patagonians?
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. (p. 90) Where is the Strait of Magellan located?
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. (p. 91) Who was Magellan and why is he significant?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
6. Define putrid:____________________________________________________________________
7. Magellan and his crew ate rats and chewed leather straps and drank putrid water:
We were three months and twenty days without getting any kind of fresh food. We ate biscuit,
which was no longer biscuit, but powder of biscuit swarming with worms, for they had eaten the
good. It stank strongly of the urine of rats…And if the rats…some of us couldn’t get enough. –
Antonio Pigafetta, crew member
Which event is depicted in Pigafetta’s journal entry?
a. Magellan chose to fight the Natives.
b. By the time Magellan and his men reached land, near China and the Spice Islands,
most were almost dead from hunger.
8. Magellan planned to sail around the world (circumnavigate the globe). What actually happened
to stop Magellan from meeting his goal? Summarize Pigafetta’s journal entry from p. 91-92.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
*Some believe the cannibals in the Philippines ate Magellan.
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CH. 24 Gloom, doom, and a bit of cheer
1. (p. 114) The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) raged through Europe and Asia in the 14th century
and killed more people than any war. How did it begin and spread?
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. At least _________% of the population of Asia, Europe and North Africa died in 40 years.
About __________% of those who got the plague died.
3. Define eradicate:_______________________________________________________________
Which disease seems to have been eradicated? ______________________________________
4. (p. 115) What were Europeans searching for in the Americas?___________________________
5. Besides Peru’s silver mines at Potosi, what other riches did Europeans find?
_____________________________________________________________________________
6. What language do people in Brazil speak? __________________________________________
Why? _______________________________________________________________________
CH. 25 North of new spain
1. (p. 116) What was one problem in Florida’s Swamps? _________________________________
2. How did Indians pan for gold?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. (p. 117) Define Fray/Friar:________________________________________________________
4. (p. 119) The mythical seven cities of Cibola, Cities of Gold, motivated many conquistadors.
Which conquistador thought he found one of the cities?
_____________________________________________________________________________
CH. 26 looking for Cibola with Coronado
1. (p. 120). Maize is ______________________.
2. (p. 121) Boats couldn’t always get close enough to shore. How did people or horses get on/off
board? ______________________________________________________________________
3. What is the origin of the word barbecue?
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. CLOSE THE GAPS:
Pedro de Castaneda, one of Coronado’s soldiers, wrote of the Zuni Indians of Hawikuh,
They were ruled by a _________________of old men. They have _______________....whom they call
papas (elder brothers)…there is no drunkenness among them…nor _______________, neither do they
eat ______________ flesh or ________________, but are usually at ______________________.
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CH. 27 Conquistadors: California to Florida
1. (p. 124) Number the events below from first to last:
___Columbus reaches the Bahamas
___Pizarro invades Peru
___Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America
___Ponce de Leon claims Puerto Rico for Spain
___Cortes lands in Mexico
2. What is a griffin?________________________________________________________________
3. (p. 125)Why was De Soto horrified when Pizarro killed Atahualpa, the Incan ruler?
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. (p. 126) Define & sketch lance:____________________________________________________
5. Define savory:_________________________________________________________________
6. (p. 127) Define calumet. How was it used?
_____________________________________________________________________________
7. It took the Spaniards 227 years to return to California as settlers. Who led and founded Mission
San Diego de Alcala?_____________________________________________________________
8. (p. 128) How did de Soto and his men surround an Alabama Indian village?
_____________________________________________________________________________
9. Define cane:_____________________________Define canebrake:________________________
10. Define bayou:__________________________________________________________________
CH. 28 A Place Called santé fe
1. What did even the meanest conquistadors believe?
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. Many Mexicans are part ________________________ and part _________________________.
3. Define Sante Fe:________________________________________________________________
4. Define plateau& sketch:__________________________________________________________
5. Define missionary:______________________________________________________________
6. Define convert:_________________________________________________________________
7. Where can you visit Spanish mission churches?
_____________________________________________________________________________
CH. 30 The big picture
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1. (p. 136) Why did the founders of the USA officially separate religion and government?
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________nailed a list of _________________to a ____________door in
___________________and began the Protestant Reformation.
3. Through battles and torture, Ferdinand and Isabella tried to get rid of all _______________,
_____________________, and Protestants in Spain.
4. (p. 137) Who was Hatuey and why is he significant?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. Define freethinker:______________________________________________________________
6. Define heretic:_________________________________________________________________
CH. 31 From spain to England to france
1. Why was King Henry VIII angry with the Catholic Church?
Henry’s 6 Wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived”
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. What group did Mary I persecute (there was a lot of burning at the stake!): ________________
3. (p. 139) Why are French Protestants (Huguenots) fleeing?
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. Soldier stealing from the poor box labeled, “__________________________________”
CH. 32 France in America: Pirates and Adventurers
1. (p. 140) The entrance to New York Harbor is called _________________Narrows and a
suspension bridge are both named for Verranzano, an Italian explorer hired by France.
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. Define privateer:________________________________________________________________
3. (p. 141) How did Native Americans on the North American coast make dugout canoes?
_____________________________________________________________________________
What did they offer the French captain?_____________________________________________
4. Define galleon:_________________________________________________________________
5. (p. 142) How did Indians on the East Coast smoke fish?
_____________________________________________________________________________
6. CLOSE THE GAPS: In 1598, Henry IV of France gave religious freedom to Protestants with a
ruling called ___________________ of __________________. However, in 1685 King Louis
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XIV ____________________(took back) the Edict and ____________________began again.
Therefore, ______________________________headed for the New World.
7. Where did one 16 yr old choose to live after refusing to sail back to France? The voyage over
was bleak. The Huguenots starved and suffered from New World germs.
_____________________________________________________________________________
CH. 33 Rain, Ambush, and Murder
1. (p. 144) Why was it dangerous along the East Coast?
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. How do we know about Indian life and the adventures of the French in America?
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. (p. 145) Who preyed on the Spanish and French forts/ships on North America’s East Coast?
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. (p. 146) Define yardarm:_________________________________________________________
How do sailors know when it is noon? ______________________________________________
5. Define swashbuckling:___________________________________________________________
6. Read the WHO AM I passage & respond to WHO AM I?_________________________________
CH. 34 New France
1. (p. 147) What animals nearly died out after Europeans came?___________________________
2. Why did an Algonquin believe the English have no sense?
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. How did French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, keep a record?
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. (p. 148) List 5 scenes from the map made for French missionaries.
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. Champlain helped ________________and Algonquin Indians fight the ____________________.
In this battle in 1609 a few of the French and ____Huron surprised _______Iroquois and won.
6. (p. 150) Who is Marquette? _______________________________________________________
7. How do the Indians feel about Marquette?___________________________________________
8. Who is Joliet?__________________________________________________________________
9. Why do Indians respect Marquette?________________________________________________
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