Age of Exploration

Before the discovery of the Americas, to reach Asia, explorers had to sail around which continent?

• Africa

• Antarctica

• South America

• Australia

Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

• God

• Gas

• Gold

• Glory

Where did Columbus first set foot in the New World?

• Florida

• Virginia 

• Bahamas 

• New York

What is an astrolabe? 

• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• None of the above. 

What is a caravel?

• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• All of the above. 

What is a magnetic compass? 

• A small, fast ship. 

• A tool that shows which direction is North. 

• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 

• None of the above. 

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• racism

• colony

• mercantilism

• ethnocentric

This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world and later died in the Philippines during his voyage.

• Vasco da Gama

• John Cabot

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Blackbeard

This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernán Cortés

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.

• Francisco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Pizarro