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- Sir Peter Russell’s Prince Henry the Navigator is the standard biography of the Portuguese ruler.
- Samuel Eliot Morrison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea is the classic biography of Christopher Columbus; it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942 and has aged well. A traditionalist defense of Columbus against political correctness in more recent years is Robert Royal’s 1492 and All That.
- John Eidsmoe’s Columbus and Cortez: Conquerors for Christ defends its subjects from modern criticisms that do not take into account the context in which their actions were taken.
- William Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico is the classic account of Cortes and the Aztecs. His History of the Conquest of Peru, unfortunately, is not online, but can be purchased in modern editions.
Voyages of Discovery – Quiz
- Explain how the phrase “God, gold, and glory” to some extent explains motivations for European explorations in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- Identify the factors that enabled Europeans to become dominant in the regions they explored.
- ___________________ was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope.
- The Portuguese established themselves as the dominant force in the Indian Ocean as a result of the Battle of _____________ in 1509.
- Explain why Columbus believed he could reach Asia by sailing west from Iberia more quickly than he could by sailing around Africa.
- ___________________ was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
- The last ruler of the Aztec empire was _________________.
- ______________________ conquered the Incan Empire in the 1530s.
- Explain what caused persistent inflation in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- The phrase captures not only religious and economic motivations, but also the martial spirit of the Iberian nobility.
- superior military technology, divisions within indigenous societies, transmission of disease
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Diu
- He underestimated the circumference of the globe.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Moctezuma II
- Francisco Pisarro
- inflow of gold and silver from America