Age of Exploration

The Vikings were a group of people who

• Lived in the New World and tried to stop Europeans from exploring.

• Attacked European ships like pirates at sea.

• Explored hundreds of years before the Europeans in the Age of Exploration.

• Attacked the Native Americans in the New World for their land.

What was the Age of Exploration?

• A time of great discovery that was focused on exploring and learning more about the world.

• The official age that a young European boy had to be in order to set sail for the New World.

• A time when many people learned to sail and tried to learn as much as possible about the ocean and traveling on it.

• A time when people wanted to move away from their home countries so they went looking for more land.

Who was Marco Polo?

• A European explorer who made important discoveries in the New World.

• An explorer who traveled to ASIA by land and kept detailed journals about his travels that inspired others.

• The first European explorer to reach Asia by finding an all water route around Africa.

• A young prince who started a school for people wanting to explore.

Which of the following was the LEAST important subject that explorers needed to be familiar with before going on an expedition?

• Sailing

• Math

• Astronomy

• Botany

Which was NOT one of the ways that explorers found the money to go on expeditions?

• By attending the School of Navigation

• By selling everything they owned to pay for their trip

• By moving to another country to ask another king/queen for sponsorship

• Asking the king/queen of their HOME country for sponsorship

What is cartography?

• The study and practice of making maps.

• The study and practice of building ships.

• The study and practice of exploring new lands.

• The study and practice of making tools for sailors.

How were maps made during the Age of Exploration?

• Mapmakers relied on the reports that explorers gave them from their expeditions to make maps.

• Map makers used satellites, GPS devices, and google earth during that time to make maps.

• Map makers used the newly invented printing press to copy their maps to send with explorers on their expeditions.

What was the Northwest Passage?

• An all water route around Africa to Asia.

• An all land route through the Middle East to Asia.

• An all water route through the Atlantic Ocean to reach Asia.

• An all water route through the Arctic to reach Asia.

What was the Columbian exchange?

• The trades that were made between Christopher Columbus and the natives that he first met in the New World.

• The trading of goods that took place between explorers before and after their expeditions.

• The spread of crops, goods, ideas, and animals all over the world.

What did a compass do?

• It kept time.

• It measured speed.

• It determined latitude by measuring the sun.

• It determined the direction the ship was going.