Age of Exploration

Who is Christopher Columbus? 

• Explorer who found the Indies.
• Explorer who found the Americas.
• Explorer who sailed to Asia. 
• Explorer who sailed to the Indies. 

What is an astrolabe? 

• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• None of the above. 

What is a caravel?

• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• All of the above. 

What was a magnetic compass? 

• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• None of the above. 

Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to sail around the world. This is known as what?

• Circumnavigation
• Compass
• Mercantilism
• Northwest Passage

Spanish explorers searching for gold and glory in the Americas during the 1500s were known as what?

• Mercantilism
• Renaissance
•  Conquistador
• Astrolabe

Cortes is known for brutally taking over the Aztec empire.

• True
• False

Europeans called the Americas the ______, even though Native Americans had lived there for thousands of years.

• New World
• Indies
• Strange Land

What was the name of the time period in the 1500s when European explorers started searching for new lands?

• Explor-a-rama
• The Age of Exploration
• Scientific Revolution
• The Age of New Discovery