European Expansion and Exploration

I believed I could reach Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.  I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.

• Cabot
• de Leon
• Columbus
• Cortes

Which religion did Prince Henry the Navigator hope to spread?

• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Christianity

_______________ reached America in 1497. He landed in what is now Canada, and is credited with finding a good fishing spot that made England money.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Amerigo Vespucci

Columbus went _____________ from Europe to try to reach Asia. 

• north
• south
• east
• west

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

What the name given to the ships used for European exploration?

• Skif
• Caravel
• Tanker
• Canoe

I was looking for the Northwest Passage in 1534. On my journey, I sailed down the Saint Lawrence River. 

• Henry Hudson
• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Christopher Columbus

In 1500 he tried to sail around Africa, but he sailed too far west and landed on the east coast of South America. 

• Francisco Pizarro
• Pedro Cabral
• Ferdinad Magellan
• Vasco Nunez Balboa

A journey by water is also called a...

• ship
• travels
• Silk Road
• voyage

During the Age of Exploration, Europe looked for sea routes to the East in order to __________.

• find a faster trade route to Asia
• spread Christianity
• colonize new territories
• all of the above