The Age of Exploration

Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?

• Marco Polo

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Giovanni Caboto

• Christopher Columbus

What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?

• hull and caravel

• hourglass and sexant

• astrolabe and magnetic compass

• lateen and knots

Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Alvares Cabral

• Prince Henry the Navigator

What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?

• Straights of Magellan

• Northwest Passage

• Cape of Good Hope

• Tasmania

What important route did Dias' discovery lead to?

• a westward route to the Spice Islands

• a polar route to the Americas

• a route to the Indian Ocean

• a path around South America

Where did Vasco da Gama explore?

• Newfoundland

• the eastern coast of North America

• the eastern coast of Africa

• Caribbean Islands

Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?

• the Canary Islands

• Brazil

• North America

• Java

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

• the East Indies

• the Bahamas

• Cape of Good Hope

• Virginia

Why did Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians"?

• He thought he had reached East Indies

• It was the Spanish word for strangers

• They looked like people he had seen in India

• That is the name they called themselves.

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• divided the western hemisphere into North and South America

• legalized the slave trade

• divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

• permitted slavery in the Americas