European Exploration and Navigational Advancements

Which of the following is not a motive for exploration?

• God
• Glory
• Gold
• Gummies

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

Which was NOT a European motive for exploration?

• wealth
• religious conversion
• spread disease
• economic opportunity

Who was the first explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India?

• Vasco da Gama
• James Cook
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Ferdinand Megallan

Columbus thought that he had arrived at  ___________, and therefore called the Natives he met Indians.

• Cathay
• Africa
• America
• India

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

Who reached the tip of Africa?

• Columbus
• Cook
• Dias
• da Gama

Who sailed around Africa to India?

• Dias
• da Gama
• Columbus
• Cabot

Which country sponsored Christopher Columbus' expeditions?

• Italy
• Portugal
• Spain
• England

I started a school for navigators, and people who wanted to go out exploring.

• Columbus
• Prince Henry
• Polo
• Magellan