Age of Exploration

People of the Middle Ages started to explore for three reasons. Which of the following was NOT a reason explorers started to circle the globe?

• Wealth through buying and selling exotic goods

• Curiosity about other lands and what they held

• Spreading medical advancements

• Spreading Christianity

Although Bartolomeu Dias named the tip of Africa Cape of Storms, what did King John II renamed it?

• Tip of the Horn

• Cape of Good Hope

• Cape of Potts

• Cape White Rain

Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama rounded tip of Africa and was the first European to reach which country by a sea route?

• Pakistan

• China

• India

• Australia

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor who sailed for Spain, was the first to accomplish what two things?

• Sail around Cape Horn of South America and circumnavigate the world.

• Sail around Cape of Hope in India and land in Australia.

• Sail to the Caribbean and through Panama canal.

• Sail to the Caribbean and to South American shores.

Columbus sailed to the Caribbean in 1492 with three ships. Which of the following was NOT one of those ships?

• Santa Maria

• Pinta

• Bandita

• Nina

Columbus initially landed on Haiti and renamed it Hispaniola. Which of the following did Columbus take back to Spain to pay for his trip?

• Gold

• Parrots

• Captives

• Spices

• All of the above

What event happened that helped Cortes in defeating the Aztec?

• A smallpox epidemic

• Neighboring tribes joined the Spanish to fight them

• The Spaniards returned with better weapons and overpowered the Aztecs.

• None of the above

What event helped Pizarro to defeat the Inca?

• A Civil War

• Pizarro captured and killed the Inca king Atahualpa

• Smallpox

• All of the above

Why did the English settlers who founded Jamestown sail to the Americas?

• Religious freedom

• Freedom from oppression under the English monarch

• They were sailing to Africa and were thrown off course

• None of the above

Why did Queen Elizabeth I send Sir Francis Drake and other sailors (the Sea Dogs) to the Americas?

• To discover new lands

• To spread Christianity

• To steal gold and silver from the Spanish Armada

• To find a route to India to get into spice trading.