Age of Exploration

Made maps that aided in navigation and led to new discoveries.

• geologist

• geographer

• conquistador

• cartographers

Support for Portuguese exploration was led by

• Columbus

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

• Prince Henry

• all of the above

The chief source of spices from Asia was the island chain called

• Caribbean

• Moluccas

• New Zealand

The first European explorer to reach India was

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry Hudson

Who controlled trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400's?

• the Spanish and Portuguese

• Arabs and Italians

• the Spanish and the Arabs

Which statement best summarizes Portuguese discoveries?

• They sailed to India by going around the tip of Africa

• They sailed west to the East Indies

• None of these

What critical mistake did Columbus make when he left Spain in 1492?

• He greatly overestimated the Earth's size

• He believed the earth was flat

• He greatly underestimated the Earth's size

• All of the above

Which statement best describes Ferdinand Magellan?

• North and South America are named after him

• The expedition he commanded was the first to reach India

• The expedition he commanded circled the globe

• None of these

The Columbian Exchange was an exchange from east to west and west to east of

• silk

• porcelain

• food

The Portuguese had much success using Native Americans for slave labor in Brazil with the growing of sugar cane.

• True

• False