Bellringer
• Who is your favorite explorer that we have
studied and why?
• Get out your Chapter 6-4 Notes from
yesterday
• Study for the Vocabulary Bee, quietly and by
yourself
Bellringer
• Why did slavery come to the Americas? (Page 160)
• Cross off the last 2 days on your Bellringer sheet and put
it in the tray
• Study for your Vocabulary Quiz by yourself
• Get your Chapter 6 Notes together, stapled in the correct
order, name on them, and ready to turn in tomorrow
before your test
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Chapter 6-1 *Should be on top
Chapter 6-2
Chapter 6-3 (G. O.)
Chapter 6-4 (G. O.)
Bellringer
• What are three facts you have learned from
Chapter 6?
• Put your completed Bellringer in the tray
– You should have 4 out of the 5 days completed
• Put your Chapter 6 Notes in the tray
• Get out an old Scantron if you have one for the test
Extra Credit
• 3 Boxes of Tissues
• Poster over 3 topics that you enjoyed learning
about this year
– 5 facts over each topic
– 1 picture over each topic
• 1 page typed paper over 3 topics that you
enjoyed learning about this year
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12 point font
Times New Roman
Double Spaced
1-inch Margins
Title Page with Name, Date, Period, and Title
• Due by April 30th!!!
Section 1 Review
1. Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Italian artist and scientist of the Renaissance
2. Who was Michelangelo?
Italian artist of the Renaissance who painted the Sistine
Chapel
3. Who was Martin Luther?
Monk who caused the Reformation
4. What conditions in northern Italy led to the
Renaissance?
Wealthy Italians had time to take interest in different
subjects
5. Why did kings and nobles in northern Europe want
to break away from the Roman Catholic Church?
They wanted to collect their own taxes and make their own
laws
Section 2 Review
1. What did Henry the Navigator do to make
Portugal a leader in exploration?
Opened a school and invited mapmakers, shipbuilders,
and navigators
2. Name two explorers who sailed for Spain
Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan
3. What did they accomplish?
Columbus- discovered the Americas
Magellan- first to sail around the world
Section 3 Review Questions
1. Who was Louis XIV?
Absolute monarch of France, known as the “Sun King”
2. Who was Peter the Great?
Powerful ruler of Russia in the 1700s
3. What do you think Louis XIV meant when he
said “I am the state”?
He meant that all the power rested in him
4. Which groups did European monarchs
weaken to make themselves more powerful?
European monarchs weakened the nobles and the
Church
Section 4 Review Questions
1. Who was Hernan Cortes?
Conquistador who defeated the Aztec empire
2. How were Cortes and Pizarro able to conquer
great empires with only small numbers of
Spanish soldiers?
Help from other natives and diseases
3. What impact did the slave trade have on
Africa?
Region lost its best people to slavery and caused wars
within Africa
Chapter 6 Test Review
1. The Aztecs finally surrendered to Cortes after
A.
B.
C.
D.
Quetzalcoatl returned
Pizarro’s army joined the fight
Cortes promised them their rights
A fierce and bloody war
2. Painters like Michelangelo used perspective,
light, and shadow to create paintings that
looked
A.
B.
C.
D.
Flat
Real
Magical
The same
3. Why were enslaved Africans brought to the
Americas?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Because the Portuguese needed new settlers
To work on plantations and in mines
To become American citizens
Because conditions in Africa were bad
4. The goal of the Reformation was to
A.
B.
C.
D.
Improve religious customs
Further the ideas of the Renaissance
Blend Protestantism and Roman Catholicism
Emphasize music and art
5. During the Middle Ages, why was life in
northern Italy different than life in the rest of
Europe?
A. The lives of Italians were threatened by Muslim
invaders
B. Italian merchants controlled European trade with
Asia
C. The lives of Italians were controlled by popes and
kings
D. Italians were more threatened by war and disease
6. Compared to people in the rest of Europe,
the lives of people in northern Italy were not
as closely controlled by
A.
B.
C.
D.
The middle class
Trade with Asia
Popes and kings
The ideas of Greece and Rome
7. Luther believed that the key to getting into
heaven was
A.
B.
C.
D.
Belief in God
Obedience to the Church
Fighting in the Crusades
Giving money to the Church
8. Why didn’t most people in Europe buy
African slaves?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It was against their religion
They had enough cheap labor
They had Native American slaves
European explorers didn’t go to Africa
9. Why were European countries looking for a
new route to Asia?
A. They were tired of buying Asian goods from
Italian merchants
B. They wanted to take back the Holy Land
C. They didn’t trust Muslim merchants
D. They were tired of buying Asian goods from
Spanish merchants
10.Which ruler lived in incredible luxury at
Versailles?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Louis XIV
King Ferdinand
Charles I
Moctezuma
11.Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
supported Columbus’s voyage because they
thought
A.
B.
C.
D.
Native Americans should learn about Christianity
The world was flat
Territories could be gained in the New World
Great riches could be gained from a new route to
Asia
12.In order for the monarchy in France to gain
absolute power, it first had to
A.
B.
C.
D.
Give the people more rights
Build strong groups of nobles
Convince the people to vote for divine right
Destroy the power of the nobles
13.What was one reason that Portugal led Europe’s
exploration of the world?
A. Portugal controlled European trade with Asia
B. Portugal supported Magellan’s trip around the world
C. Prince Henry was the first person to explore Cape
Bojador
D. Prince Henry opened a school for mapmakers,
shipbuilders, and navigators
14.In order for Spain to take over Mexico, Cortes
had to conquer the
A.
B.
C.
D.
French navy
English settlers
Aztec empire
Incan empire
15.Christopher Columbus believed that he could
reach India by
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sailing around Africa
Sailing east
Sailing west
Sailing through the Mediterranean
16.As an absolute monarch, King Louis XIV
shared power with
A.
B.
C.
D.
A council
No one
His nobles
The citizens of France
17.Which European country had a monarch who
had to share power with Parliament?
A.
B.
C.
D.
England
France
Spain
Russia
18.The first European countries to carve empires
in the Americas were
A.
B.
C.
D.
Portugal and Spain
England and France
France and Spain
Italy and England
Other Items to Know
• Be sure to study the questions at the end of
your notes
• Be sure to study the map at the end of
Chapter 6