Age of Exploration

What is the name of the time period between the 15th and 17th centuries in which Europeans travelled in search of new trade routes, lands, and goods?

• Age of Treasure
• Age of Adventure
• Age of Exploration
• Age of Navigation

John Cabot claimed lands for _________.

• Spain
• Portugal
• England
• France

In order to arrive in the New World, all of the explorers had to cross the ___________.

• Straights of Magellan

• Bering Strait

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

The map of Magellan's voyage shows that his crew successfully: 

• Reached the South Pole

• Found the Northwest Passage

• Discovered America

• Sailed around the world

What Asian goods were highly valued and could be brought to Europe to sell for a huge profit?

• spices
• navigation equipment
• gold
• ships

Diseases carried by the explorers such as measles, smallpox, and malaria killed many _________.

• Colonists
• African slaves
• Spanish explorers
• Native Americans

When Columbus first landed, where did he think he was?

• Asia

• America

• Africa

• Scandinavia

Where did Columbus really land?

• Australia

• An island in Canada

• An island in the Caribbean Sea

• Africa

What group of people did Hernando Cortez want to conquer?

• Aztecs

• Myans

• French

• Iroquois

His name was eventually used to name "North America" & "South America".

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan