Exploration Test

Join Dak, CeeDee, and Jerry are on a thrilling adventure through history! They're exploring the Age of Exploration, but one of these technologies didn't help them set sail. Can you spot the odd one out? 

• Caravel

• Magnetic Compass

• Astrolabe

• Sun-spotter

Hey history buffs! Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are debating who really discovered the ‘New World’ first. While Columbus gets all the credit, some say this legendary explorer beat him by 500 years. Who do you think it was?

• Dora the Explorer

• Leif Erikson

• Vasco De Gama

• Henry Hudson

Hey adventurers! Can you guess who gave the sunny state of Florida its name? 

• Hernando Cortez

• Bartolome de Las Casa

• Francisco Pizarro

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Florida Man

Ferdinand Magellan is most closely associated with which achievement?

• Circumnavigation of the globe

• Discovery of the Americas

• First to find a water route to India

• First to find the Northwest Passage

Which of the following was NOT a reason for "starting" the Age of Exploration?

• The desire to gain land, wealth, and resources

• The goal to open new trade routes

• The North Atlantic Slave Trade

• Advancements in technology, science, and mathematics.

• Extreme Boredom

All of these are EFFECTS of the Age of Exploration except: 

• The discovery of the New World

• The beginning of the Columbian Exchange

• European nations competing to claim and occupy land in the New World

• The beginning of the Renaissance

Imagine you're on a time-traveling adventure! Can you guess what the Columbian Exchange was all about?

• The transfer of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between Europe and the Indies

• The transfer of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere

  
  

• The transfer of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between Europe and Asia.

• The transfer of goods, ideas, people, and diseases throughout Europe

Which of the following was a downside of the Columbian Exchange?

• Europeans brought cows and hogs to the Americas.

• Europeans brought new resources from the Americans to Europe.

• Thousands of Native Americans died from European diseases.

• Europeans brought wheat and oats to the Americas.

Which explorer was most closely associated with the conquest of the Aztec empire in modern day Mexico?

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Hernan Cortes

• Henry Hudson

• Ferdinand Magellan

What information is included on this chart?

• animals from the Western Hemisphere introduced to the Eastern Hemisphere as part of the Columbian Exchange

• crops from the Western Hemisphere introduced to the Eastern Hemisphere as part of the Columbian Exchange

• goods transferred between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres as part of the Columbian Exchange

• vegetables grown in South America after the Columbian Exchange