Explorers Info Review - Grade 5

This explorer traveled FROM Venice through Asia and wrote a book encouraging exploration with his cellmate.

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Giovanni De Verrazano

What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?

• astrolabe and magnetic compass

• hourglass and sextant

• hull and caravel

What landmark did Bartolomeu Dias reach at the tip of Africa?

• Cape of Good Hope

• Straits of Magellan

• Northwest Passage

Where did Vasco De Gama explore?

• eastern coast of Africa

• Caribbean Islands

• Newfoundland

Pedro Alvares Cabral wanted to sail to Africa but ended up discovering what?

• North America

• Java

• Brazil

Where did Christopher Columbus land his first voyage?

• Bahamas

• Virginia

• Cape of Good Hope

What did Christopher Columbus call the people he met that lived in the Americas?

• Bahama men

• Americans

• Indians

Christopher Columbus called the people he met in the Americas' Indians because he thought he landed in what area?

• South America

• the Indies

• Africa

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• permitted slavery in the Americas

• divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

• divided the western hemisphere into North and South America

Spain granted land and labor to encourage settlers in the land they were trying to colonize (the Americas). What were these grants of land and labor called?

• haciendas

• conquistadores

• encomiendas