European Exploration 2018

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

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

Who were the major players in European exploration?

• England, Portugal, Spain
• England, Italy, Egypt
• Portugal, Spain, Sweden 
• India, France, Greece

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

_______________ 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

Who reached the tip of Africa?

• Columbus
• Cook
• Dias
• da Gama

What is a Spanish soldier/explorer that wanted riches, power, & glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas?

• Friar
• Priest
• Conquistador
• Karankawa

A (n)___________________ is one who makes maps.

• astronomer
• cartographer
• mapmetician 
• physicist