Age of Exploration Review

Categorize

Options (8)

New Routes for Trade

Spreading Christianity

Wealth

World Power

fear of the unknown

poor navigational tools

poor maps

Disease and starvation

Sort the Motivations and Obstacles to Exploration

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Motivations for Exploration

Obstacles to Exploration

Labelling

Label the 5 Oceans.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Indian

Southern

Atlantic

Pacific

Arctic

Labelling

Place the explorers name over the route they traveled.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Ferdinand Magellan

Leif Erickson

Christopher Columbus

Hernan Cortes

Bartolomeu Dias

Categorize

Options (7)

Cattle

Horses

Sugar

Maize

tomato

vanilla

Tobacco

Organize these options into the right categories

Old World to New World

New World to Old World

Dropdown

European were trying to find a faster route to Asia to profit from ​

Select answer

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Match

Match the following Vocabulary words.

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Conquistador

• Mission

• Presidios

settling outside a country to gain land

Travelling for the 3 G's

Spanish soldier and conqueror

settlements to convert natives to Christ

military forts to protect missions

• settling outside a country to gain land

• Travelling for the 3 G's

• Spanish soldier and conqueror

• settlements to convert natives to Christ

• military forts to protect missions

Categorize

Options (11)

Christopher Columbus

Juan Ponce de Leon

Francisco Pizzaro

Hernan Cortes

Prince Henry

Bartolomeu Dias

Vasco de Gama

Walter Raleigh

John Smith

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

Sort each explorer into the country they explored for. It may be different than their nationality.

Spain

Portugal

England

France

Categorize

Options (9)

Spread Christianity

Natural Resources

Enlarge Empire

Escape persecution

Convert non-believers

Mine precious metals

Control trade routes

Achieve military victories

Expand cultural influence

Place the motives in the right column

God

Gold

Glory

Match

Match the picture of the tool with the name and use.

Astrolabe: finds the height of the sun

Compass: points to the North Pole

Gunpowder: used in canons and guns

Sextant:

tells latitude and longitude

Chronometer: tells exact time

• Astrolabe: finds the height of the sun

• Compass: points to the North Pole

• Gunpowder: used in canons and guns

• Sextant:

  tells latitude and longitude

• Chronometer: tells exact time

Draw

Read this excerpt: “I was soon put down under the decks … I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me . . .”

– Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography of a Former Slave

then point or circle the section of the Triangle Trade that was called the Middle Passage (Enslaved people going to America)

Reorder

Put the following in order to create a timeline of exploration.

• Leif Erickson travel from Scandinavia to what is now Canada

• Prince Henry creates a school for navigation

• Bartolomeu Dias sails from Portugal to the southern point of Africa

• Christopher Columbus sails from Spain to North America

• Hernan Cortes leads an expedition into Mexico

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Categorize

Options (3)

Claimed Canada for France

First to circumnavigate the globe

Exploration led to the fall of the Inca Empire

Match each explorer with what they are most famous for discovering.

Jacques Cartier

Ferdinand Magellan

Francisco Pizarro

Categorize

Options (4)

First to explore Florida

First to explore N. America

First to explore Southwest N. America

Renamed the area as Mexico

Match each explorer with what they are most famous for discovering.

Juan Ponce De Leon

John Cabot

Francisco Coronado

Hernan Cortes