The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration

7th Grade

14 Qs

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The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration

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7th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did European merchants want to locate a new sea route to Asia? Select all that apply.

It would be more direct and thereby reduce costs.

traders would not have to travel overland through the Middle East

It would provide more jobs for sailors.

They would be able to get goods they were unable to obtain any other way.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What information did the astrolabe provide for explorers?

their current speed

their current latitude

how many miles they had traveled

the direction in which they were traveling

3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did European mapmakers create more accurate maps during the Renaissance? Select all that apply.

They now understood the size and location of North America.

They were able to study ancient Greek and medieval Arabian maps.

They were able to use printing presses to reproduce their maps.

They learned for the first time that the world was round.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where did Columbus land on his first voyage?

on an island in the Caribbean Sea

in what is now the Carolinas

off the coast of Newfoundland

in the northwestern part of South America

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did Prince Henry of Portugal encourage Europeans to explore the world?

He paid for many voyages of exploration.

He developed a new type of compass.

He led an expedition to South America.

He designed a new faster sailing ship.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The expedition of which explorer was the first to circumnavigate, or travel completely around, the world.

Cortes

Champlain

Joliet

Magellan

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The country of ____________ led the way in the 1400s in exploring new trade routes to Asia.

Portugal

France

England

Spain

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