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Age of Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

Authored by Meagan Dirr

Social Studies

7th - 8th Grade

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Age of Exploration Vocabulary Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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Allowed sailors to measure the angle of the sun on the horizon which would tell them their latitude.

Conquistador

Astrolabe

Old World

Caravel

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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Europe, Asia, and Africa before the discovery of the New World.

New World

Triangular Trade

Old World

Columbian Exchange

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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The horrific trade route that brought captured, enslaved Africans to the New World.

Old World

Middle Passage

Triangular Trade

Mercantilism

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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Small, lighter, and faster ships ideal for ocean travel.

Caravel

Astrolabe

Mercantilism

New World

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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Dominant economic theory of the time that said colonies bring wealth to the mother country. 

Columbian Exchange

Triangular Trade

Cartographer

Mercantilism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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Mapmaker

Astrolabe

Cartographer

Caravel

Middle Passage

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 2 pts

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The global transfer of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease that began with Columbus’s exploration of the Americas.

Mercantilism

Middle Passage

Triangular Trade

Columbian Exchange

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