Please Help! its due monday! 30 points! 11. What were the names of the three ships given to Columbus by the Spanish King and Queen
(Answer A), and on which one did he sail (Answer B)?
a.
b.
12. According to the text, why did Columbus call the people he encounterd on his first voyage
“Indians”?
a.
13. Look at the map on page 40 of you’r textbook. If you were to follow the journeys of Amerigo
Vespucci, what continent do you think he explored the most?
a.
14. Who was the first European to Circumnavigate, or sail around, the world?
a.
15. The Spanish Conquistadors were successful in conquering both the Aztec Empire in Mexico and
the Incan Empire in South America. Please give, and explain, the three reasons they were able
to do this, according to the text.
a.
b.
c.

12. Santa Maria

13. Columbus called all the people he met in the islands 'Indians', because he was sure that he had reached the Indies. This initial encounter opened up the 'New World' to European colonization, which would come to have a devastating impact on indigenous populations.

14. Ferdinand Magellan

15. The Spanish conquered the great Aztec and Inca empires by bringing diseases to kill most of them off quickly, scaring them with the horses, and using their more advanced superior weapons to kill them.

answer: (fluidity)is the correct answer.

explanation: because of this characteristic, success on the battlefield depends in large part on the ability to adapt to proactively change events to our advantage as well as to react quickly to constantly changing conditions

president carter called the victims of kidnapping "victims of terrorism and anarchy" and added that the united states was not going to give in to blackmail. in the united states, they see hostage-taking as an outrage on the part of the islamist movement that violated the principle of international law on the immunity and inviolability of diplomats and their embassies.

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