Age of Exploration

''The Caravel'' is a small and light ships to travel by sea.

• Yes

• No

The Vikings were from Scandinavia beginning in the 800´s and they sailed in the _________ sea.

• Southern

• Colombian

• Northearn

• Western

Trade is the act or process of:

• create goods

• cook food

• fabricating and selling food

• buying, selling or exchanging goods

Prince Henry from Portugal opened a school to teach navigation and mapmaking.

• Yes

• No

Portuguese rulers encouraged:

• buying clothes

• exploration

• writing new routes

• finding new lands

Bartolomeo Dias led an expedition of ____________ ships to explore Africas´s western coast.

• twenty

• one

• one thousand

• three

The needle of a compass always points at the _________ so sailors know their direction.

• south

• north

• west

• east

The astrolabe was a tool from Europe, it measured the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.

• Yes

• No

These are new technologies to improve sea traveling:

• cellphone

• magnetic compass, the astrolabe, the sextant and the chronometer

• the sextant and the gps

• computer, astrolabe and cellphone

A merchant is a person who buys and sells goods for profit.

• Yes

• No