Age of Exploration

Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Gambling

Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Queen Isabella
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan 

European countries wanted to find a faster route to...?

• Asia
• Africa
• The north pole
• California

What explorer sailed all the way around the world?
(He was credited with it, but in fact he died before his ship made it back.)

• Balboa
• Cabot
• Magellan
• De Soto

Which European country did NOT claim territory in North America?

• Spain

• Italy

• England

• France

In 1488, this Portuguese Explorer was the first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa)

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

This Portuguese sailor was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope and reach India by sea.

• Sir Edmund Allenby

• Sir Francis Drake

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Vasco Da Gama

This man was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named the Huron-Iroquois word "kanata", or village "The Country of Canadas"

• Henry Hudson

• Hernan Cortes

• Jacques Cartier

• John Cabot

This is a small, Portuguese engineered sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.

• yacht

• gulley

• catamaran

• caravel

To sail or travel all the way around is __________

• detour

• compass

• circus

• circumnavigate