Age of Exploration Review QUIZ 2

While searching for the "Northwest Passage", this explorer claimed "Canada" for England and he also believed natives could be transformed into Englishmen

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry the Navigator
• John Cabot
• Juan Ponce de Leon

This explorer was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa and reach India/Asia

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry the Navigator
• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus

This explorer defeated the Aztecs in the Americas while searching for gold and treasures

• Jacques Cartier
• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Christopher Columbus

This explorer established colonies in Canada for the English and several bodies of water are named after him

• Jacques Cartier
• Henry the Navigator
• Henry Hudson
• Christopher Columbus

This prince financed many voyages and started the first school of navigation, which put Portugal in the lead of exploration

• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Henry the Navigator
• Henry Hudson
• Christopher Columbus

What motivated explorers during the Age of Exploration?

• Explorers were trying to find alternate routes to Asia to get spices.
• Explorers were trying to spread religion or escape from a religion.
• Explorers were trying to gain land, become famous, and gain gold.
• All answers are correct

An explorer and cartographer best known for establishing a fur-trading center in New France in Quebec, Canada.

• Sir Walter Raleigh
• James Cook
• Hernando de Soto
• Samuel de Champlain

This explorer discovered the Grand Canyon and traveled to modern-day Kansas from Mexico. He was searching for a golden city, but he did not find what he was looking for.

• Giovanni da Verrazano
• Hernando de Soto
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

This explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discover the Pacific Ocean. He named the ocean "Mar del Sur" meaning sea of the south.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Hernando de Soto

This explorer discovered that Columbus had not reached Asia, but he had actually reached a completely new continent. The “Americas” were named after him.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Sir Francis Drake
• Giovanni da Verrazano