Europeans Explore Overseas 11.1

The Age of Exploration

• began in the late 13th century and lasted until the middle of the 14th century.

• began in the early 15th century and continued into the early 17th century.

• began in the mid-1400s and ended in the early 1800s.

• began in the late 1700s and continued into the 1900s.

The transfer of plants, animals, foods, human populations, communicable diseases, and culture between the Eastern and Western hemispheres is known as the

• Columbian Exchange.

• Triangular Trade.

• Silk Road.

• Northwest Passage.

What European country is credited with launching the Age of Exploration by systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa?

• Spain

• Italy

• Holland

• Portugal

The Treaty of Tordesillas

• gave Spain exclusive colonial rights to the entire Atlantic region.

• divided Africa among the European colonial powers.

• divided the world into two regions of exploration between Spain and Portugal.

• officially opened the New World to exploration among the European powers.

One important factor that limited European knowledge of the world was

• Europeans had no interest in the rest of the world.

• maps were old and incomplete.

• any maps had been lost during the medieval period.

• Europeans had not developed ships capable for ocean exploration.

What Arab navigation tool greatly helped Europeans begin widespread oceanic exploration?

• the lateen sail

• the magnetic compass

• the astrolabe

• the Ephemerides

What two goods encouraged Europeans to try to find sea routes to east Asia and develop direct trade between the two regions?

• rubber and jute

• silver and gold

• silk and spices

• opium and hemp

What Portuguese royalty financed much of Portugal’s early exploration of the African coast?

• Prince Henry

• King Dinis

• Prince Cueta

• King Ferdinand

A major advance that opened up the safe sailing of the open Atlantic was a type of ship known as a

• lateen.

• caravel.

• galley.

• carrack.

What explorer was the first to round the southern tip of Africa in 1488?

• Diogo Cao

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Joao de Santarem

• Vasco da Gama