

Age of Exploration Review
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6th - 8th Grade
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Sarah Castillo
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Categorize
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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Labelling
Label the 5 Oceans.
Pacific
Arctic
Atlantic
Southern
Indian
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Labelling
Place the explorers name over the route they traveled.
Hernan Cortes
Leif Erickson
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
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Categorize
Cattle
Horses
Sugar
Maize
tomato
vanilla
Tobacco
Organize these options into the right categories
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Dropdown
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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
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Categorize
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.
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Categorize
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
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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
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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)
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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
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.
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Categorize
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.
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