Age of Exploration Quiz

Where did Vasco da Gama explore?

• Indias

• Spain

• Eastern coast of Africa

• America

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

• Fleet

• Cartographer

• sextant

• Astrolabe and magnetic compass

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

• Marco Polo

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Henry Hudson

2. What important route did Dias’s discovery lead to?

• A route to Wisconsin

• a route to Asia

• a route to the America's

• a route to the Indian Ocean

What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?

• Cape Cod

• Cape of Good Hope

• Cabo San Lucas

• Straits of Magellan

Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?

• Princess Elizabeth I

• Henry IX

• 1. Prince Henry the Navigator

• Jacques Cartier

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• 1.  Divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

• 1. United the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

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

• Haiti

• Brazil

• Colombia

• Mexico

Where are the Straits of Magellan?

• In India

• Near Portugal

• Near the Bahamas

• Near the Southern tip of South America

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

• The Bahamas

• Near Brazil

• in the US

• Close to India