Age of Exploration Test

Match the following:

• prosperity of a nation depends on gold and silver

• mercantilism

• seafaring; relating to the sea

• Maritime

• settlement of people linked to a parent country

• colony

• travel completely around

• circumnavigate

• the act of converting people to Christianity

• evangelization

Match the following

• company operating in many countries

• multinational corporation

• a company jointly owned by shareholders

• caravel

• fast, maneuverable ship with a large cargo hold and usually 3 masts.

• joint-stock company

• large agricultural estate

• galleons

• large Spanish trading ship

• plantation

This explorer is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world, but died in the Philippines on his voyage.

• Vasco De Gama

• John Cabot

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Black Beard

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortez

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.

• Francisco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Pizarro

What is the Columbian Exhange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

What were the 3 major motivating factors for Explorers?

• Gold, Silver, Treasure

• God, Glory, Gold

• God, Glory, Gallantry

• Honor, Justice, Reinhardt!

There was a scarcity of natural resources in Europe. What does the word scarcity mean?

• short or small supply

• plenty or abundant

• desire or need for a product

• situation involving great danger

Why did Europeans want to find a water route to India?

• They did not have the technology to travel to India by land

• To avoid dangerous or expensive land routes that were controlled by the Ottoman Empire

• They were unable to continue living in Europe

• They were motivated to have a really nice and relaxing vacation

What role did Prince Henry play in European exploration?

• established a school for explorers

• led many expeditions to Asia

• invented the astrolabe

• discovered the New World