10th grade social studies-- explorers, etc. PLEASE HELP?

Question

i was absent during this week and we have a test tomorrow on this crap and i got all that i could for the study guide that is due. im sorry that they're hard but just do as many as you can thanks.
1- which explorer (different explorer for each letter):
a- explored the sourthern tip of africa
b- had the first crew to compete a circumnavigation of the world?
c- brutally took over much of mexico (conquistador)
d- was killed in philippines during his attemt at circumnavigation
e- pioneered a water route from Europe to India

3- What is a caravel?
8- describe the triangular trade (what goods were traded?)
10- What were the issues decided in the amistad case? what were the effects?


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Answer 1

a) Bartolomeu Dias 1488
b) Ferdinand Magellan's crew - voyage 1519-1522
c) Hernan Cortez betwen 1519 and 1521
d) Magellan again - killed in 1521 on the trip
e) Vasco de Gama - voyage1498-1499

3. A caravel is a small fast sailing ship perhaps 75 feet long and 20 feet wide. It can carry about 50 tons in her cargo hold. It's a shallow draft, square rigged ship very useful for the early Portuguese and Spanish explorations of the late 1400s/early 1500s.

10. The Amistad was a slave ship taken over by slaves and sailed to America. The question was whether to allow these Africans to keep their freedom or return them to slavery.
Here's an excerpt from Wiki :
The incident began with a rebellion of slaves on board the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839. It broke out when the schooner, traveling along the coast of Cuba, was taken over by a group of captives who had earlier been kidnapped in Africa and sold into slavery. The Africans were later apprehended on the vessel near Long Island, New York by the United States Navy and taken into custody. The ensuing widely publicized court cases in the United States helped the abolitionist movement. In 1840, a federal trial court found that the initial transport of the Africans across the Atlantic (which did not involve the Amistad) had been illegal and that they were not legally slaves but free. The Supreme Court affirmed this finding on March 9, 1841, and the Africans traveled home in 1842.

I have to look up the triangle trade. I think I know, but I'd better check to be sure.

OK #8. An example of the common triangle trade of the 1700s was a ship going from Britain to West Africa carrying cloth, copper, guns, ammunition and trinkets to trade with West African natives who did most of the slave catching. After trading for slaves, the "middle passage" was the second leg - the notorious trip from Africa to the Caribbean islands - where slaves would be traded for sugar, molasses, and rum.
Ships would then often head to America to trade for tobacco, indigo, rice, or cotton in the South or perhaps dried fish, timber, or rum in New England. Then the ship would head back to Britain to sell whatever they had picked up in America. The goods traded varied, and there might be more than three stops, but the entire transit was essentially a "triangle."
Hope I haven't confused you. It was fun to look that up again.
I did search the internet for all of these answers to make sure they are correct. The one exception was the caravel question which I already knew - so you might want to look that one up to double check me. No one is perfect.

Added note - I double checked caravels. Early ones were lateen rigged rather than square rigged if that makes a difference to you. I was thinking of Columbus' ship the Nina
( a caravel) which had a square rigged mainsail in 1492

Answer 2

You might want to google these items. It would be a lot faster than waiting for people to give you answers that might not be correct.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure he's right about magellan