Age of Exploration

Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?

• Marco Polo

• Giovanni de Verazano

• Giovanni Caboto

• Christopher Columbus

Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Marco Polo

What landmark was Bartholomeu Dias the first European to reach?

• Straights of Magellan

• Nothwest Passage

• Tasmania

• Cape of Good Hope

Where did Vasco da Gama explore?

• Newfoundland

• the eastern coast of North America

• the eastern coast of Africa

• Caribbean Islands

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

• the East Indies

• the Bahamas

• Cape of Good Hope

• Virginia

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• divide the western hemisphere into North and South America

• legalized the slave rade

• divided the land in the western hemisphere into between Spain and Portugal

• permitted slavery in the Americas

Why did Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians"?

• It was the Spanish word for strangers.

• They looked like people he had seen in India.

• Thant is the name they called themselves.

• He thought he had reached the East Indies.

Where are the Straits of Magellan?

• where the Panama Canal is today

• at the opening of the Mediterranean Sea

• near the southern tip of South America

• between the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway

What was the first English colony in North America

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke Island

• Massachusetts Bay

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Elizabeth, New Jersey

• Victoria, Canada

• New Amsterdam, New York