Exploration

What is an astrolabe used for?

• direction of travel

• to measure latitude

• to measure speed

• to measure time

During the Age of Exploration, explorers were trying to find new trade routes to what place?

• Africa
• America
• Asia
• Europe

What religious goal inspired many European explorers?

• to visit holy sites
• to live in poverty
• to learn about other faiths
• to spread their beliefs 

What is Columbus known for?

• finding a sea route to Asia
• sailing around the world
• accidentally discovering the Americas
• discovering Brazil

Which explorer led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe?

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry Hudson
• Vasco da Gama
• Jacques Cartier

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Vasco de Gama
• Triangular Trade
• Treaty of Tordesillas

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

• Colonies
• Cortes
• Joint-stock
• Conquistadors

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Capitalism
• Colonization

What was the primary reason that European explorers had for wanting to explore after the Crusades?

• They were searching for an all-water route to Asia to acquire silks and spices.

• They wanted to practice their navigating skills.

• They wanted to spread their religion to Asia.

• They wanted to spread their ideas about government with the Native Americans.

After the Reformation, the Catholic Spanish sent their Armada to attack the English because:

• The Spanish changed their official religion to Protestant

• The English changed their official religion to Catholic

• The Spanish changed their official religion to Catholic

• The English changed their official religion to Protestant