Age of Exploration

What was the name of the time period in the 1500s when European explorers started searching for new lands?

• Explor-a-rama
• The Age of Exploration
• The Age of New Discovery

The three main motives for exploration were

• Disease, land, goods and ideas

• Maps, exchange of goods, farming

• economic, gold, natural resources

• trade, religion, curiosity

First to sail directly from Europe to India

• Bartolomeu Dias 
• Vasco Da Gama 
• Hernan Cortez
• Christopher Columbus 

He established navigation school and encouraged expeditions

• Hernan Cortez

• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

Explorer credited with the discovery of the "New World"

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christoper Columbus

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Sir Francis Drake

Which technological advances allowed Europeans to explore new areas?

• caravel
• compass
• astrolabe
• all of the above

Which conquistador conquered the Aztecs?

• Pizarro

• Cortes

• Cabot

• Balboa

The Columbian Exchange. was a movement of _______, between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. 

• people/cultures 
• disease
• animals/plants
• all of the above

As native populations decreased in the Americas from sickness and overwork, Europeans looked for new sources of labor by enslaving the ____________.

• Africans
• Spanish
• Portuguese

Which was traded from the New World to the Old World?

• major diseases
• horses
• potatoes and corn
• slaves