Age of Exploration

The three key motivations for European explorers were God, gold, and ______.

• Grace

• Glory

• Greed

• Glaciers

A fast ship that could sail against the wind with a large cargo area, and a shallow hull that could navigate shallow water was the ...

• clipper

• caravel

• astrolabe

• galleon

Who $ponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the west coast of Africa?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:

• to entrust
• to connect
• court
• conquerors

European countries were trying to find a faster route to...?

• Asia

• Africa

• The North Pole

• California

What explorer sailed all the way around the world?

(He was credited with it, but in fact he died before his ship made it back.)

• Balboa

• Cabot

• Magellan

• De Soto

This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortez

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.

• Francisco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Pizarro

The New World Is the ______________(s)

• The Americas

• The world after WWII

• Europe, Asia, Africa.

• The best song in the movie Aladdin.

In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by sailing around the tip of Africa and landing in India'?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartholomew Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus