Age of Exploration Live Quiz 2019

A piece of technology used by sailors that determined their latitude position.

• Astrolave
• Astrolabe
• Astrocave
• Astroship

Amerigo Vespucci

• Discovered South America as its own continent, North and South America named After him
• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
• First European to make it to North America

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

What was a magnetic compass? 

• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• None of the above. 

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

• epidemic
• encomienda
• missionary
• imperialism

How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?

• He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again
• He opened up a school of navigation to educate the people
• He came up with Magellan's Mathematical Equation to prove it
• Christopher Columbus confirmed his theory on his voyage

What was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?

• To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia
• To circumnavigate the world in the name of Italy
• To launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by sea
• To find the city of gold in southern Africa

European countries wanted to find a faster route to...?

• Asia
• Africa
• The north pole
• California

The exchange of goods and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?

• Triangular Trade
• Mercantilism
• Capitalism
• Columbian Exchange

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The Middle Passage was_______________?

• The exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases from the New World to Europe.
• The transport of Africans to the Americas by boat across the Atlantic ocean.
• Trading goods among three people.
• The transfer of cash crops to the Americas.