Age of Exploration and Trade Review

Which of the following images depicts the voyage of Christopher Columbus?

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His crew was the first to circumnavigate (sail around) the world.

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortex

A device to help sailors determine their location using stars.

• compas

• astrolabe

• compass

• caravel

The science of map making.

• caravel

• cartography

• compass

• astrolabe

A device that shows the direction north.

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

• cartography

Early explorer who thought he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Oceans. Landed in what is today the Caribbean.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry

The trade in goods, raw materials, and slaves between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

• the Columbian Exchange

• the Triangular Trade

• the Middle Passage

• Globalization

What was the MAIN reason for the Age of Exploration to start?

• To find better routes to Asia to buy spices

• To find new land

• To find new people

• For religious freedom

Before the Age of Exploration, what was the only Spice Trade Route?

• Marco Polo's Path to Special Food

• Silk Road

• Super Secret Spice Trade

Select 3 reasons why Europeans wanted a sea route to Asia.

• Competition with Muslims and Italians who controlled the land routes

• Chinese and Indian governments welcomed European trade

• Traveling over land was too difficult

• Sailing was much faster and could carry more goods by ship

• Europeans wanted to find out who could build better ships