Portuguese and Spanish Explorations

_____established the first school of navigation.

• Prince Henry

• Bartholomew Dias

• Vasco de Gama

Which explorer sailed around the tip of Africa first?

• Vasco de Gama

• Prince Henry

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

What was Columbus searching for?

• Spice Islands

• Bahamas

• Hawaii

• West Indies

Vasco Nunez de Balboa is credited for discovering the __

• Pacific Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Atlantic Ocean

• Cape of Good Hope

Columbus searched for many years for someone to give him money to sail to the west. Which leaders and country finally gave him money?

• Prince Henry of Portugal

• King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Italy

• King Joao of Portugal

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

On his first voyage, Columbus landed on ___

• present-day Florida

• Hispaniola, known today as Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

• San Salvador, known today as the Bahamas

• San Juan, known today as Puerto Rico

Native to a certain place

• tribal

• original

• indigenous

• local

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

• trade

• colonization

• conquest

• mining

an agreement in 1493 establishing a line to divide new lands between two European countries

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Columbian Exchange
• Treaty of 1493

• Treaty of Pope Alexander VI

Which European country explored and colonized the New World first?

• Spain

• Portugal