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APUSH-Amsco Chapter 1-Questions with Correct Answers/Verified/ latest Version (2024/2025)
Christopher Columbus - ✔✔He was an italian navigator who, in 1492, was granted a voyage
of three ships. He sought out to find a quicker path to the Indies, but instead he wound up
in the "New World". Columbus brought permanent connection between Europe and Native
Americans
New World - ✔✔Also known as the Americas, the new world was the land that columbus
discovered in 1492. The new world was also the land that England, Spain, Portugal and
France started to colonize. During colonization, the Europeans were first introduced to the
Native Americans who inhabited the land
Amerigo Vespucci - ✔✔Another italian navigator who corrected Columbus's mistake(s),
acknowledging the coasts of america as a new world. America is named after him.
Papal Line of Demarcation - ✔✔The dividing line in the new world. Spain and Portugal were
the first to claim land and when they could not settle on equally dividing it, they turned to
the pope for help. In 1493 the pope drew the Papal Line of Demarcation and gave Spain
everyting to the west of it and Portugal everything to the right
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - ✔✔In accordance to the Papal Line of Demarcation, Spain and
Portugal agreed to sign the Treaty of Tordesillas. This moved the line over a few degrees on
the map
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - ✔✔Navigator who made the journey the Isthmus of Panama to the
Paciffic ocean before the new world was discovered
Ferdinand Megellan - ✔✔Sailor who captianed the voyages that went out on the
circumnavigation of the world in the early years of the 1600's
Hernan Cortes - ✔✔Spanish conquistador who conquored the Aztecs in Mexico for Spain,
1519
Francisco Pizarro - ✔✔A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in 1745
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