Age of Exploration

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 were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land
• a way to the South Pole
• a new trade route to India by sea
• a new school in Portugal

European explorers were sent to the New World for ______.

• gold, spices, and ships
• gold, land, and to convert native people to Christianity
• silver, pearls, and slaves
• slaves, navigators, and cartographers

Slaves were brought to the New World from _________.

• Africa
• New Netherland
• Canada
• New Zealand

Who was the explorer that FIRST sailed around Africa in order to make it to Asia by water?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Vasco de Gama

What are the 3 G's?

• God, Guns, Glory
• Goods,  Glory, God
• God, Glory, Gold

In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in what part of the Western Hemisphere? 

• South America 
• Central America 
• Florida Peninsula 
• Caribbean islands 

What is one way the use of slave labor in the Americas contributed to an expansion of the Atlantic slave trade? 

• by decreasing the likelihood of famine or drought 
• by reducing the need for fertilizers or crop rotation 
• by raising the demand for livestock like cattle and horses 
• by increasing the production of cash crops like sugar and tobacco 

Which of the following was NOT a reason why Europeans started to navigate the ocean waters.

• The building of the caravel with sails that would be able to go with and against the wind.
• Cartographers were able to make better maps of the ocean waters
• The inventions of the compass and astrolabe allowed sailors to sail at night using the stars.
• The invention of a weapon that was used against the different monsters and creatures that were in the ocean waters.