Age of Exploration

This helped explorers travel safer and further.

• astrolabe

• compass

• Caravel

• telescope

Exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas.

• Northwest Passage

• Colony

• Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

What were the 3 reasons/motives the conquistadors came to the New World?

• God, Gold, Goods

• Gold, Silver, Bronze

• God, Gold, Glory

• God, Land, Spices

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. 

This map represents What?

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christo pher Columbus in 1492.

• The Seperation of powers between the new world and old world

• the exchange of manufactured goods, slaves, and raw material gathered from the exploits in the new world

the economic theory that trade generates wealth is what?

• Democratic

• Republic

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

This explorer is credited with the distruction of the Inca Empire

• Cortez

• Pizzaro

• Magellan

• Ponce de leon

Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Queen Isabella

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan 

Christopher Columbus

• First Portuguese explorer to make it to India

• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians

• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world

• First European to make it to North America

Ferdinand Magellan

• First Portuguese explorer to make it to India

• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians

• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world

• First European to make it to North America