Age of Discovery Quiz

What is the purpose of an astrolabe?

• To determine latitude using the sun

• To find direction on the ocean

• To make better ship designs

• To sail around Africa and India

What does a cartographer do?

• Determines where the latitude is using the sun

• Translates for people

• Makes it easier to find where they are going

• Conquers outposts for the new world

What does a sextant determine?

• Where the latitude is using the sun

• Where they are going on the ocean

• Where the longitude is using the stars

• Where the latitude is using the stars

What is the purpose of a caravel?

• To determine latitude using the sun

• To find direction on the ocean

• To make better ship designs

• To sail around Africa and India

What does it mean to circumnavigate?

• To determine latitude using the sun

• To find direction on the ocean

• To go all the way around the world

• To sail around Africa and India

What was Prince Henry the Navigator's goal?

• To find African gold and slave trade

• To sail around Africa and India

• To determine latitude using the sun

• To make better ship designs

Who sailed around Africa and India?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Atahualpa

What did the Line of Demarcation treaty give to Portugal?

• Brazil

• India

• Peru

• West Indies

What is scurvy?

• A very bad disease

• A language that has developed from a mixture of different languages

• A person given land and certain privileges

• Ruins in the U.S. of the first permanent English settlement in America

Who said Columbus discovered a new world?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Atahualpa