Age of Exploration & Gunpowder Empires

Age of Exploration & Gunpowder Empires

6th - 12th Grade

28 Qs

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Age of Exploration & Gunpowder Empires

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6th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This explorer was the 1st to circumnavigate the world, and later died in the Philippines on his voyage.

Vasco De Gama

John Cabot

Ferdinand Magellan

Black Beard

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This Explorer was the first to establish an Indian trade route by sailing south around the Cape of Good Hope.

Vasco de Gama

Bartholomew Dias

John Cabot

Hernan Cortez

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was Ponce De Leon's purpose for exploring? 

To find Christopher Columbus and his crew.
To find the Pacific ocean
To find India and a quicker route to the New World.
To find gold and the Fountain of Youth

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Columbian Exhange?

Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Europeans began exploring the world because they wanted to:

gain riches from Asia like silk and spices
prove that the world was flat
discover a New World
All of these are true

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The motivation to explore for Europeans included:

the desire to spread their religion
the need to move to a new continent
the need to build new and better ships
All of these

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Age of Exploration
The European Plan of Attack
 Route of Columbus's First Voyage
Columbian Exchange

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