Age of Explorations

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

• Astrolave
• Astrolabe
• Astrocave
• Astroship

Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

• God
• Gas
• Gold
• Glory

What country paid for Christopher Columbus journey?

• Spain

• England

• Italy

• Portugal

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• racism
• colony
• mercantalism
• ethnocentric

Capturing or taking something by force.

• conquest
• global
• columbian exchange
• epidemic

Which of the following was the main reason that Columbus sailed west from Europe?

• to find a more direct water route to Asia
• to set up colonies
• to spread the Catholic religion
• to stay home

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Which explorer claimed for Holland much of what  is now the state of New York?

• Hudson
• Balboa
• De Soto
• Coronado

Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

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Two things that conquistadors had that the Native Americans did not: horses and _______

• families
• gold
• guns
• land

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