Columbus & Explorers Ch.2 Lesson 1 Quiz

The _______________ helped make long voyages possible because it was large enough to carry the necessary supplies for the trip.

The word Pacific means __________ in Spanish.

Columbus sailed to the Americas under the flag of the country _____ despite being born in Italy.

Explorers in the 15th century thought that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ran together and did not know that ________ lay between them.

• the Americas

• India

• the Southern Ocean

• glaciers

The fact that South America was a separate continent was discovered by _______ ________.

• Vasco Núñez de Balbo

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

One of the new developments that made exploration possible was a navigation tool called a(n)

• astrolable

• caravel

• carrack

• depth finder

The Portuguese wanted to explore the world because they

• needed new trade routes

• wanted more land

• wanted to rule the world

• were curious

The first land that Columbus reached was an island in the Caribbean which he named

• the Bahamas

• San Salvador

• Tierra

• the West Indies

Columbus called the people he encountered

• "Asians"

• "Salvadorians"

• "Spaniards"

• "Indians"

Columbus mapped the coastline of which of the following?

• Japan

• China

• Central America

• North America