Age of Exploration

What were most of the explorers looking for on their expeditions?

• The edge of the Earth

• Giant Sea Monsters

• New trading routes

• New continents

Why did countries fund expensive and risky expeditions?

• To find gold and silver

• To find lands they could colonize

• To find new trading routes to the East Indies

• All of the above

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided up the New World between what two countries?

• Spain and Portugal

• England and France

• Germany and Austria

• Spain and France

Who was Henry the Navigator

• The first European to sail around the South of Africa.

• The first explorers to discover the Americas.

• The conqueror of the Inca Empire in South America

• The first explorer to circumnavigate the world. (circumnavigate means to sail or travel all the way around something)

• The King of Portugal who sent out explorers to map the west coast of Africa.

Which explorer discovered a trade route around the Southern tip of Africa to India

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry the Navigator

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

What country sponsored the expedition of Christopher Columbus where he discovered the Americas?

• England

• Spain

• Portugal

• Italy

Which country founded the thirteen American Colonies that later became the United States

• England

• Spain

• Netherlands

• Germany

Which explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

True or False: The Age of Exploration took place at about the same time as the European Renaissance?

• True

• False

What area of the work was still not mapped at th end of the Age of Exploration?

• Much of central Africa

• Arctic and Antartica

• East Australia

• All of the above