European Exploration

What is the act of traveling in search of new lands, ideas or things?

• Colony

• Searching

• Conquistador

• Exploration

What is the name for a Spanish explorer and conqueror?

• Conquistador

• Columbian Exchange

• Colony

• Exploration

What is a territory controlled by a stronger country called?

• Exploration

• Colony

• Democracy

• Columbian Exchange

European explorers were looking for a quicker way to get to where when they sailed both East and West during the Age of Exploration?

• Asia

• Africa

• America

• Antarctica

What was the trading of goods between the American colonies, Europe, and Africa called?

• Conquistador

• Colonization

• Manifest Destiny

• Columbian Exchange

Which of the following was NOT a tool used during the Age of Exploration?

• Steam Engine

• Compass

• Astrolabe

• Caravel

Which country sent explorers Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Hernan Cortes to claim land in the Western Hemipshere?

• England

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

European Exploration increased after China closed the...

• Silk Roads

• Khyber Pass

• Tibetan Plateau Path

• Port at Nanjing

Prior to being called the Americas, Europeans nicknamed the Western Hemisphere...

• Columbus Land

• Brazil

• The New World

• West Asia