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This is a quiz that goes over the Reformation of the Catholic Church, the Americas, the Scientific Revolution, and the Explorers

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History Final on Reformation, the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and the Explorers by Tennisgirl

Question 1 of 16

1

Who is Nicolas Copernicus?

Select one of the following:

  • A baker for the King that was executed for his belief in god

  • A German friar that staged a revolt against the Catholic church

  • A renaissance mathematician that made the universe with the sun as its center instead of the Earth

  • an ambassador to the church that collected taxes to 'give to God'

Explanation

Question 2 of 16

1

Who discovered Canada?

Select one of the following:

  • Vasco da Gama

  • Henry Hudson

  • Cartier

  • Balboa

Explanation

Question 3 of 16

1

What did the explorers find in Canada?

Select one of the following:

  • penguins

  • Fish

  • Oxen

  • Bison

Explanation

Question 4 of 16

1

Henry Hudson discovered modern day New York.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 16

1

Hudson mutinied his crew

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 16

1

Cartier made fancy jewlery

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 16

1

Describe the Scientific Method

Select one of the following:

  • ask a question
    hypothesis
    present

  • ask a question
    observe
    make a hypothesis
    test
    present

  • ask a question
    think of the answer
    test
    show
    theorize

  • ask a question
    observe
    make a hypothesis
    test the hypothesis
    theorize/start over

Explanation

Question 8 of 16

1

What sign did the Aztec believe that the gods would give to signify there new homeland?

Select one of the following:

  • An owl carrying a rat

  • an eagle with a snake in its mouth on a cactus

  • a bear holding a dead fish on a lake

Explanation

Question 9 of 16

1

In which modern country do the Aztec live?

Select one of the following:

  • Mexico

  • Belize

  • Guatemala

  • Peru

  • Chile

  • Uraguay

  • Spain

Explanation

Question 10 of 16

1

What modern day country do the Inca live in?

Select one of the following:

  • Peru

  • America

  • Mexico

  • Uraguay

  • Spain

  • Canada

  • Chile

  • Iceland

Explanation

Question 11 of 16

1

What modern day country did the Inca live in?

Select one of the following:

  • Mexico

  • Peru

  • China

  • Belize

  • Uraguay

  • Canada

  • Argentina

Explanation

Question 12 of 16

1

What did Isaac Newton study or discover?

Select one or more of the following:

  • gravity

  • speed of sound

  • built the first telescpe

  • calculus

  • color spectrum with prisms

  • speed of light

  • how things could fly and humans could not

  • created the oven

  • made the first mattress

  • created glass

Explanation

Question 13 of 16

1

What does circumnavigate mean?

Select one of the following:

  • to travel around the whole thing of a piece of land

  • a navigator of circles

  • a way of traveling across the ocean

Explanation

Question 14 of 16

1

What was the Peace of Augsburg?

Select one of the following:

  • an agreement that let each German ruler decide whether his Kingdom would be Lutheran or cTholic

  • an agreement that forced townspeople to be Catholic

  • a list of names of the dead after the German war

  • an agreement that turned all of Germany Lutheran

Explanation

Question 15 of 16

1

Who did Cortez takeover?

Select one of the following:

  • Maya

  • Inca

  • Aztec

  • Indians

  • The Spanish

Explanation

Question 16 of 16

1

what is a quipu?

Select one of the following:

  • an ostrich

  • a string that holds a temple together

  • hieroglyphs on temple walls

  • knotted, colored string record keeper

  • a monk that records scripture for the german rulers

Explanation