The Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration

Prince Henry

​​Astrolabe

Caravel

Match

Match the following terms with their definitions

• Sponsor

• Circumnavigate

• Astrolabe

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Caravel

A person who gives money for an undertaking

to travel completely around the world

An instrument that measures the angle of the stars above the horizon

Treaty between Portugal and Spain

A Ship with square sails and triangular lateen sails

• A person who gives money for an undertaking

• to travel completely around the world

• An instrument that measures the angle of the stars above the horizon

• Treaty between Portugal and Spain

• A Ship with square sails and triangular lateen sails

Multiple Choice

What is this?

• caravel

• astrolabe

• clock

• medallion

Multiple Choice

Who is this?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Prince Henry the Navigator

Multiple Choice

What is this?

• astrolabe

• airplane

• caravel

• submarine

Multiple Select

Choose all that apply: What helped make Portugal the leading European power in trade with Asia?

• They went to war with Spain

• Prince Henry set up a school for mapmakers and navigators

• Portuguese perfected the caravel

• They used the astrolabe

• Portugal set up trading posts along Africa's coast

Multiple Select

What were Columbus's two mistakes? (Mark 2)

• He circumnavigated the globe

• He conquered the Aztec Empire

• He thought the Earth was 2/3 as large as it really was.

• Columbus thought he was in India, but it was the Bahamas.

Multiple Select

What were two reasons Europeans sponsored explorations of the America?

• Searching for gold

• Searching for a shortcut to Asia

• To go to war with other countries

• No one knows

Multiple Choice

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• It settled which country could claim newly-explored lands

• It settled who can take spices

• It settled who could name America

• No one knows

Match

Match the following explorer with their accomplishment

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernan Cortes

• Ferdinand Magellan

Claimed United States and Canadian coastal lands for England

First to explore and map the coasts of the Americas

Conquered the Aztec Empire

Circumnavigated the globe

• Claimed United States and Canadian coastal lands for England

• First to explore and map the coasts of the Americas

• Conquered the Aztec Empire

• Circumnavigated the globe