Balboa Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Who was the first known European to look westward upon the Pacific Ocean, in 1513? - ANSWER-Vasco de Balboa Which statement best describes the role of women in pre-Columbian North American tribes? - ANSWER-In all tribes, women cared for the children and prepared meals. In England during the early sixteenth century, mercantilism thrived mostly on the basis of trade in which commodity? - ANSWER-Wool. At the time of the beginning of the slave trade, most Africans - ANSWER-Had well develope...

Renaissance Intellectual movement that lifted the darkness of the Middle Ages Jesuits Religious organization that held to the philosophy that "the end justifies the means" First Crusade Captured Asia Minor and Jerusalem Rosetta Stone Name given to the stone that Jean Francis Champollion used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics Babel Where God confused the languages Hapsburgs Austrian family who ruled as holy Roman Emperor's for almost 300 years Feudalism Th...

Greater Antillies - ANSWER-Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico Panama Capital & currency - ANSWER-Ciudad de Panama, Balboa Dominican Republic - ANSWER-Island of Santo Domingo Agriculture: sugarcane Capital is Santo Domingo $ - Domincan Peso Cuba - ANSWER-Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso Dictator: Fidel Castro Puerto Rico - ANSWER-unincoproraged US, Capital - San Juan Us Dollar Guatemala - ANSWER-Ciudad de Guatemala Agriculture: coffee ...

Greater Antillies ANSWER- Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico Panama Capital & currency ANSWER- Ciudad de Panama, Balboa Dominican Republic ANSWER- Island of Santo Domingo Agriculture: sugarcane Capital is Santo Domingo $ - Domincan Peso Cuba ANSWER- Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso Dictator: Fidel Castro Puerto Rico ANSWER- unincoproraged US, Capital - San Juan Us Dollar Guatemala ANSWER- Ciudad de Guatemala Agriculture: co...

Treaty of Tordesillas -->Moved the "line of demarcation" further west. Ignored by most other European nations. Vasco Nunez de Balboa -->crossed the isthmus of Panama - First European to see the Pacific Ocean Juan Ponce de Leon -->explored Florida in search of gold and the fountain of youth. Claimed Florida for Spain New Spain -->autocratic empire to benefit the parent country. utilized slavery and imported african slaves John Cabot -->Italian explorer for England - searche...

CSET: Subtest 1: US History Questions and Answers (Verified Answers) CSET: Subtest 1: US History Questions and Answers (Verified Answers) What is the geography like in ALL of the US? - ANSWER-- Gulf Stream (Atlantic warm water current) warms East Coast in winter and provides great fishing - southeastern Coastal Plain extends from New Jersey to Texas: low land - Piedmont , Appalachian Mountains, and Cumblerand and Allegheny plateaus are in the eastern region of the US - Appalachians meet o...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 1 (2023/2024) Already Passed native americans; land bridge the first people to settle north america arrived as much as 40,000 years ago and came from asia; they adapted to the varied environments of the regions that they found renaissance a rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity in europe compass; printing press; gunpowder one aspect of the renaissance was a gradual increase in scientific knowledge and technological change;...

Greater Antillies - Answer- Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico Panama Capital & currency - Answer- Ciudad de Panama, Balboa Dominican Republic - Answer- Island of Santo Domingo Agriculture: sugarcane Capital is Santo Domingo $ - Domincan Peso Cuba - Answer- Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso Dictator: Fidel Castro Puerto Rico - Answer- unincoproraged US, Capital - San Juan Us Dollar Guatemala - Answer- Ciudad de Guatemala Agr...

native americans; land bridge the first people to settle north america arrived as much as 40,000 years ago and came from asia; they adapted to the varied environments of the regions that they found renaissance a rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity in europe compass; printing press; gunpowder one aspect of the renaissance was a gradual increase in scientific knowledge and technological change; europeans made improvements in the invent...

CSET SPANISH SUBTEST V Question with complete solution 2023Greater Antillies Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico Panama Capital & currency Ciudad de Panama, Balboa Dominican Republic Island of Santo Domingo Agriculture: sugarcane Capital is Santo Domingo $ - Domincan Peso Cuba Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso Dictator: Fidel Castro Puerto Rico unincoproraged US, Capital - San Juan Us Dollar Guatemala ...