Age of exploration

Age of exploration

By Sheila Cardona

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The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to

• Africa

• America

• Asia

• Europe

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Sailors used astrolabes to tell

• direction

• latitude

• speed

• time

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"New World" was a name given to the Americas by

• spice traders

• shipbuilders

• American Indians

• European Explorers

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A compass works by Earth's

• large oceans

• magnetic fields

• spinning on its axis

• orbit around the sun

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Why did explorers plant flags?

• to teach Christianity

• to help American Indians

• to find their way back again

• to claim land for their country

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What religious goal inspired many European explorers?

• To visit holy sites

• to live in poverty

• to spread their beliefs

• to learn about other faiths

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Which foods came from America?

• wheat and rice

• apples and pears

• lettuce and cabbage

• potatoes and squash

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What is a caravel?

• getting, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves

• the process of planning a route and finding one’s location

• a journey or voyage

• a small, fast sailing ship

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The process of planning a route and finding one's location:

• expedition

• caravel

• Columbian Exchange

• navigation

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What did people learn and do at Prince Henry’s school?

• examined information

• invented new tools

• improved sea travel

• all of these

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Why did European Explorers come to the Americas? 

• to gain land and wealth for their country 
• to fight the American Indians

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Which explorer was born in Italy but sailed for Spain? 

• Ferdinand Magellan 
• Christopher Columbus 

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Why was feudalism popular in the Middle Ages?

• countries did not have armies to protect them and needed the loyalty of the people to defend it

• the Roman Empire forced them to use it

• the kings were very generous and liked to give away land

• it was the only way to fight the spread of Christianity and Islam

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True or False: Most people in Middle Ages Europe were lords and ladies

• True

• False

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What did peasants do?

• Grow and harvest crops

• Take care of animals

• Lived on a fief

• All of the above

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A king or queen who is a supreme ruler is called a ____________.

• Top Dog
• Missionary
• Butterfly
• Monarch

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The ____________________________began about 1500 years ago.

• Modern Ages

• Middle Ages

• Contemporary Ages

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The peasant:

• worked hard on the land of the nobles.

• owned land given to them by the king. They lived in castles.

• were the religious people of the Middle Ages.

• were skilled workers and made products from materials such as glass and wood.

• traded products such as metal and textiles.

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Two scientific inventions at the beginning of Modern Age were:

• Printing Press and Paper

• Compass and Space Craft

• Printing Press and Compass

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Modern Age was very characterized by:

• discoveries and scientific inventions

• Conquest and space exploration

• Printing press and Conquest

• None above

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During the Middle Ages

• was developed the Nomad System

• was developed the Feudal System

• was developed the Digestive System

• was developed the Fire System

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Choose the main building from the Middle Ages

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Prince of Portugal who undertook initial expeditions to the east coast of Africa and the Atlantic ocean

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

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He completed a journey as far as Calcutta in India

• Bartolomeu Dias

   

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

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He was the first European explorer to arrive in the Cape of Good Hope in the south of Africa.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry The Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

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  Explorer and sailor who traveled west in search of a new route to Asia but landed on America instead.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

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When you preach the message of Christ.

• feudalism

• regression

• individualism

• christianize

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To provide the necessary money to cover the expenses of a business or project.

• regression

• finance

• caravel

• feudalism

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Going backwards

• feudalism

• individualisim

• christianize

• regression

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Was a political, social, and economic system in which kings possessed great extensions of land divided into fiefdoms.

• feudalism

• regression

• finance

• individualism

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He perfected the telescope.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johannes Gutenberg

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He perfected the printing press.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johhannes Gutenberg

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He studied heavenly bodies, concluded that Earth went around the sun, not the other way around.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johhannes Gutenberg

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is a navigational steering tool with a magnetic needle that points north.

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

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instrument that helped sailors position themselves by observing the stars in the sky.

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

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are light sailing ships they could transport great quantities of food and water with many crew members.

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel