Unit 3 Test Age of Exploration

What were Europeans searching for when they first started exploring the Americas?

• Places to start new colonies

• New kinds of plants and animals

• A sea route to Asia

• Religious and political freedom

What does the word Entrepreneurs mean?

• People who conquer other people

• People who set up and run businesses

• People who go to a new land to teach religion

• People who rebel against authority

What was the name of the road that people traveled to get to Asia for trading?

• The Silk Road

• the Interstate

• The land bridge

• The Super Highway

Which of the following tried to change the Catholic Church and caused it to send missionaries to the Americas?

• The Reformation

• The Renaissance

• The Reconquista

• The American Revolution

A trip taken with the goal of exploring

• Empire

• Expedition

• Field Trip

• Journey

Explorers had to convince people with money that the _____ would be worth the costs of an expedition.

• Price

• Deaths

• Gold

• Benefits

A German mapmaker named the new world after this man who discovered that the land was not part of Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

How did Balboa become famous?

• He led the first expedition to sail around the world

• He made the first land claim in what is now the United States

• He was the first European to see the Pacific from the Americas

• He conquered Mexico

A narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas.

• Voyage

• Isthmus

• Land Bridge

• A Strait

The first crew to circumnavigate around the earth was led by this man.

• Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

• Queen Isabella

• Ferdinand Magellan