Chapter 1 Lesson 2 Early Exploration (pages 10-18)

By the time the period of European exploration began, most maps included the Americas.

• True

• False

Vasco da Gama led voyages of exploration for Spain.

• True

• False

The southern tip of Africa was renamed from the “Cape of Storms” to the “Cape of Good Hope” by Portugal’s King John.

• True

• False

Queen Isabella hoped to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

• True

• False

Which of these was the largest of the ships on Christopher Columbus’s first voyage?

• the Niña

• the Isabella

• the Santa María

• the Pinta

From where did Portuguese traders buy enslaved Africans in the mid-1400s?

• the Mediterranean Coast

• the Cape of Good Hope

• the Orange River

• the Gold Coast

I was the first explorer to realize that South America was not part of Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

King John sent me from Lisbon with two caravels and a supply ship to explore the southern part of Africa.

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

I set sail from Portugal with four ships. I sailed in a wide arc around Africa in order to safely make it around the Cape of Good Hope.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry the Navigator

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa