Age of Exploration

What is the name of the Italian explorer who traveled around Asia in the 1200s and INSPIRED many others?

• Marco Polo

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Giovanni Caboto

• Christopher Columbus

A chain of islands is called what?

• mountains

• archipelago

• montivedo

• ocean dots

Which of the items listed below is NOT an archipelago?

• Hawaiian Islands

• North America

• The Spice Islands

• The Maldive Islands

What is the name of a typical ship during the type of the Age of Exploration?

• brigatine

• canoe

• clipper

• caravel

Which item listed below was NOT a tool for navigation?

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

• sextant

• hammock

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

• Bahamas

• Asia

• The Cape of Good Hope

• Plymouth Rock

The Pope drew an imaginary line in 1493. It divided land on the East given to Portugal and land on the West given to Spain. What was this line called?

• The Equator

• The Line of Demarcation

• The Mason Dixon Line

• The Prime Meridian

Which two countries was the Treaty of Tordesillas between in 1494.

• England and France

• Spain and Italy

• Portugal and England

• Spain and Portugal

What royal person is famous for making a big impact during the tie of the Age of Exploration?

• Queen Mary of Scots

• King Henry VIII of England

• Prince Henry from Portugal

What was the Middle Passage?

• a journey around the Cape of Good Hope on the way to the Indian Ocean

• the journey through the Straits of Magellan on the way to the Pacific

• the journey that enslaved took Africans from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean