The historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity is known as the

• Age of Understanding.

• Middle Ages

• Age of Reason

• Renaissance

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta and

• Cortez.

• . Isabella.

• Santa Maria.

• Tordesillas.

Who was the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America?

• Juan Ponce de Leon     

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover a

• route to Africa.

• route to South America

• southwest passage to Australia

•    northwest passage to Asia.

Whose voyage was used by England as the basis for its claims to North America?

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Robert de La Salle

• Henry Hudson

Which explorer’s crew was the first to sail around the world?

• John Cabot’s

• Ponce de Leon’s

• Christopher Columbus’

• Ferdinand Magellan’s

The exchange of diseases, ideas and food crops between Europe and the Americas is known as

• the Northwest Passage

• the Columbian Exchange

• the Trade Passage

• the American Exchange

America is named after the Italian mapmaker

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Americano da Venci

• Francisco Amerado

• Christopher Columbus

What was Columbus looking for on his 1492 voyage?

• a westward trade route to Africa

• a westward trade route to Asia.

• a trade route across the Bering Strait

• a trade route to Central America

The earliest Native Americans crossed a land bridge called

• the Bering Strait

• Alaska

• Atlantis

• Beringia