Exploration Review

Who were the first Europeans to settle in North America?

• The Portuguese

• The Spanish

• The Vikings

• The British

Who is Leif Eriksson?

• A viking who made it to North America

• The first Portuguese explorer to sail around the tip of South Africa

• One of Columbus' crewmen

• The king of the Inca empire

True or False? Prince Henry the Navigator led a few explorations himself

• True

• False

Who were the early leaders in European Exploration?

• The Spanish

• The British

• The French

• The Portuguese

Check all of the reasons for early European exploration

• They wanted spices from Asia

• They wanted to learn more about Asian culture

• They wanted to prove theories about the Earth being round

• They wanted to covert people to Christianity

What was to chart a ship’s location based on the position of the stars

• Astrolabe

• Caravel

• New Magnetic Compass

• Observatories built by Henry the Navigator

Why was the new caravel beneficial to exploration?

• It was easier to steer

• It had square sails that worked better with the wind

• It was easier to use the magnetic compass and tell which was was North

• The caravels were never used in exploration

Who was Henry the Navigator?

• Prince of Portugal who helped advance exploration efforts

• Prince of Spain who helped advance exploration efforts

• The first explorer to circumnavigate the Earth

• The prince who invented the caravel

Who sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India?

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

What term does not relate to the others?

• Leif Eriksson

• Henry the Navigator

• Caravel

• Exploration