European Exploration 2018

European Exploration 2018

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Abbey Schaefer

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9th - 10th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which was NOT a European motive for exploration?
wealth
religious conversion
spread disease
economic opportunity

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the major players in European exploration?
England, Portugal, Spain
England, Italy, Egypt
Portugal, Spain, Sweden 
India, France, Greece

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

_______________ 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

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