Age of Exploration

This is a map of the known world in the late 1400s. What do you notice?

Renaissance

Rebirth of Learning

• Period of intellectual and artistic rebirth

• new ideas, advancements, and cultural change

• increase in trade

• patronage system

Multiple Choice

What does Renaissance mean?

• rebirth of artists

• rebirth of learning

• nation building

• lords purchased

Multiple Choice

How does the patronage system help the Renaissance?

• Wealthy people would be able to create artwork because they did not have to work for a living and had the time.

• Wealthy people would pay artists to create work which would inspire others to spend their money for artwork to be made

• Wealthy people would use their power to force artists to work for them.

• Wealthy people became explorers and scholars.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following reasons for exploration could be summarized with one word: "God"?

• New trade routes introduced spices that Europeans demanded.

• The promise of wealth from conquered territory enticed explorers to set sail.

• Stories of Marco Polo's travels through Asia inspired others to want to set sail and explore.

• European Christians wanted to spread their religion to off-set the spread of Islam

Multiple Choice

Which of the following reasons for exploration could be summarized with one word: "Glory"?

• New trade routes introduced spices that Europeans demanded.

• The promise of wealth from conquered territory enticed explorers to set sail.

• Stories of Marco Polo's travels through Asia inspired others to want to set sail and explore.

• European Christians wanted to spread their religion to off-set the spread of Islam

Multiple Choice

Which of the following reasons for exploration could be summarized with one word: "Gold"?

• New trade routes introduced spices that Europeans demanded.

• The promise of wealth from conquered territory enticed explorers to set sail.

• Stories of Marco Polo's travels through Asia inspired others to want to set sail and explore.

• European Christians wanted to spread their religion to off-set the spread of Islam

Multiple Choice

Select the "G" word that IS NOT one of the "G"s of exploration.

• Gold

• Greatness

• Glory

• God

Multiple Choice

What new technological invention measured latitude and longitude?

• compass

• maps

• astrolabe

• caravel

Multiple Choice

What new technological invention helped tell the direction ships were sailing?

• compass

• maps

• astrolabe

• caravel

Multiple Choice

What new technological invention helped sailors sail against the wind?

• compass

• maps

• astrolabe

• caravel

Multiple Choice

How did advancements in technology help exploration boom?

• They allowed sailors to sail further from the coast making it safer and maps made it easier to navigate.

• For the first time sailors had ships that could sail on the ocean.

• They put nations in a position that could make more money which they could spend on sending explorers into the unknown.

• For the first time sailors had maps to guide the way.