PEP Quiz 26

Exploration: Henry the Navigator sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of ______. He wanted to find a water route to India.

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• Australia

Under his patronage, Portuguese crews founded the country's ______ and visited regions previously unknown to Europeans.

• first state

• first hospital

• first colonies

• first family

Voyages: Henry the Navigator launched the first great European voyages of exploration. He sought new lands and sources of ____ for his kingdom and dynasty and searched for ____ allies against Islam

• eastern Christian

• western Christian

• revenue

• electricity

___ Improvements: Books and ____ were collected in a library and reports were solicited from contemporary travelers.

• charts

• pencils

• Technological

• Cartographic

This concentration of experts and information fostered advances in ______ instruments and cartography

• musical

• navigational

• logical

• technical

All of the following are tools related to exploration EXCEPT:

• Caravel

• Astrolabe

• Erlanger

• Harrison's chronometer

A compass is an instrument whose magnetized metal needle aligns itself with the _______ fields of the earth. This causes one end of the needle to point _____. Mariners used this information to navigate the ship. The Chinese are said to have invented the first compass over 2000 years ago.

• south

• magnetic

• cotton

• north

A caravel is a light _____ of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries in Europe, much-used by the Spanish and Portuguese for long voyages. Apparently developed by the Portuguese for exploring the coast of Africa, the caravel’s chief excellence lay in its capacity for sailing to _____. It was also capable of remarkable speed.

• windward

• backward

• train

• sailing ship

An astrolabe was a tool was once used to determine the altitude of the ______ or other celestial bodies

• universe

• mountains

• sun

• Earth

Chronometers were first developed for ______ navigation, being used in conjunction with astronomical observation to determine longitude.

• marine

• advanced

• technical

• straight