Age of Exploration

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

At the beginning, what was the purpose of Portuguese explorations?

• trade

• colonization

• sailing

• catch animals

His trip was funded by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

This explorer defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed all of Mexico in the name of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

• gunpowder

• chronometer

• astrolabe

• compass

• compass

• sextant

• octant

• astrolabe

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world by sailing.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

The European explorers referred to the lands they colonized as the ___ _____?

• Old World

• New Spain

• New World

• Native Land

Bartholomeu Dias proved that it was possible to

• find a water route to India.

• travel from Portugal to India.

• circumnavigate Africa when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the “Cape of Good Hope.”

• create the most sophisticated maps of their time.