The Age of Exploration

Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?

• Marco Polo

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Giovanni Caboto

• Christopher Columbus

What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?

• hull and caravel

• astrolabe and magnetic compass

• hourglass and sextant

• lateen and knots

Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Alvares Cabral

What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?

• Straits of Magellan

• Northwest Passage

• Tasmania

• Cape of Good Hope

What import route did Dias's discovery lead to?

• A westward route to the Spice Islands

• A polar route to the Americas

• A route to the Indian Ocean

• A path around South America

Where did Vasco da Gama explore?

• Newfoundland

• The eastern coast of North America

• The eastern coast of Africa

• Caribbean islands

Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?

• Brazil

• the Canary Islands

• North America

• Java

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

• The East Indies

• The Bahamas

• Cape of Good Hope

• Virginia

Why did Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians"?

• It was the Spanish word for strangers

• They looked like people he had seen in India

• That is the name they called themselves

• He thought he had reached the East Indies

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• Divided the western hemisphere into North and South America

• Legalized the slave trade

• Divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

• Permitted slavery in the Americas