Exploration- MWH

1. Which of the following was NOT a reason for European exploration:

• To spread Christianity (God)

• to help build schools

• to gain riches (gold)

The country that was the first to venture out and also developed new sailing innovations in the Age of Exploration was:

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

Bartolomeu Dias captained the first European ship to sail what route?

• west across the Atlantic Ocean

• along the west coast of Africa

• around the southern tip of Africa

Which nation helped Prince Henry to take the lead in overseas exploration?

• Italy

• Portugal

• the Netherlands

What did Vasco da Gama succeed in gaining for Portugal?

• control of the Spice Islands

• a sea route between Portugal and India

• profitable trade with the Philipines

The Treaty of Tordesillas established a new boundary between which two regions of the world?

• New land Portugal could claim in the Eastern Hemisphere and new land that Spain could claim in the Western Hemisphere.

• claimed and unclaimed lands

• Portugal and France

What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?

• more land

• more settlers

• cheap labor source

Where was Christopher Columbus born?

• Italy

• Spain

• France

Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?

• on an island in the Caribbean

• the coast of what is Panama today

• the eastern coast of North America

Christopher Columbus' voyage was sponsored by ___________

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Pope Leo X