Exploration and Colonization APWH

Which event helped motivate Europe's Age of Exploration?

• 1347 Black Death arrives

• 1683 Battle of Vienna

• 1517 Protestant Reformation begins

• 1453 Fall of Constantinople

Early explorers like Da Gama and Columbus set off in search of

• exotic animals

• scientific knowledge

• new land to conquer

• new trade routes to Asia

The compass was a navigational tool that came from

• China

• India

• Middle East

• Europe

The purpose of Zheng He's voyages was to

• discover new trade routes

• enhance China's prestige

• conquer Africa

• discover new lands

Whose voyage is shown on the map?

• Prince Henry

• Vasco Da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bernal Diaz

Whose journey is shown here (except he died in the Philippines)?

• Vasco Da Gama

• Hernando Cortez

• Francisco Pizarro

• Ferdinand Magellan

Who claimed Quebec for France?

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

• Amerigo Vespucci

What English sea captain attacked Spanish ports and circumnavigated the globe?

• John Cabot

• Francis Drake

• Jaques Cartier

• Walter Raleigh

The Colombian Exchange refers to the transfer of ________ between the Old World and New World

• technology, science, and industry

• precious metals

• ideas and religions

• plants, animals, and diseases

Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco originated in

• Americas (New World)

• Afro-Eurasia (Old World)