Explorers Quiz

More landed equaled more?

• Technology

• Political Power

• Glory

• Problems

One of the factors leading to exploration was trading, also known as?

• Political

• Gold

• Economic

• Spices

Explorers and people in power wanted to be famous which means more ______________.

• Glory

• Gold

• God

• Land

Kings and Queens wanted to spread Christianity. Which G is this?

• God

• Glory

• Gold

• Goldfish

The study of maps is called ____________.

• Mapping

• Caravel

• Compass

• Cartography

The astrolabe was used to _____________________.

• a tool used with the stars in the sky to find an explorers direction.

• an earring

• a tool used to find the direction a sailor was going with the sun and stars.

• a tool used with the compass.

What is the name of the ship that sailed faster due to new technology?

• Carter

• Caravel

• Caption

• Compass

Which county was the first to look for a Northwest passage to India?

• England

• Spain

• Portugal

• Greenland

Why was were the Vikings travels to North American never known?

• They never recorded the expedition in history.

• It never happened.

• They were not the first explorers.

• Countries did not consider them a country.

What was the name of the famous Viking?

• Leaf Erikson

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando de Soto

• Robert LaSalle