Exploration!

Why didn't people travel during the Middle Ages?

• It wasn't safe to travel.
• Europeans didn't know what existed outside their lands.
• Little learning prevented people's curiosity of finding new ways of doing things.
• All of these options

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

How did the printing press impact exploration?

• It allowed people to travel against the wind.
• It allowed people to take pictures of the journeys they had traveled 
• It made books more expensive
• The printing press allowed more people to learn to read and want to explore.

What can be defined as a place or someone that produces everything they need?

• Astrolabe
• Columbian Exchange
• self-sufficient
• interdependent

Which is not one of the "3 G's?"

• God
• Gold
• Glory
• Galantry

What is the benefit of the ship in this picture?

• It allowed explorers to be able to sail into the wind
• It always pointed North
• It could travel faster than all other ships
• It had more cargo room

This diagram represents the...

• haciendo market
• encomienda system
• Columbian Exchange
• effects of French exploration

What group of people reached the Americas first, even thought they wouldn't stay there??

• Spanish
• Viking/Norse
• French
• English

Which of these groups treated Native Americans harshly?

• Spanish
• French
• Vikings

This was the first leader of the first expedition to sail around the globe.

• Cortes
• Pizzaro
• Balboa
• Magellen