Age of Exploration

Which explorer's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the earth?

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Cortes

• Ponce de Leon

The Italian sailor who explored the Americas for Spain was…

• Vasco da Gama
• Ponce de Leon
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Game, God, Glory
• Glory, Fame, and God
• God, Glory, and Gold
• Gifts, Greatness, Glory

What was the purpose of European exploration?

• To find a sea route to Asia.
• To expand the Silk Road.
• To take back the Holy Land.
• To find a land route to Africa.

A Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain was called a

• conquistador

• colony

• pilgrim

• pioneer

This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortez

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.

• Francisco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Pizarro

This explorer was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.

• Bartholomew Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

What is the Columbian Exhange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

What is the name of the voyage West Coast African slaves took to the Americas?

• The Middle Passage

• The Long Journey

• The Long Passage

• The Middle Journey