Age of Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

1. What is an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets?

• a) Conquistador
• b) Astrolabe
• c) Middle Passage
• d) Mercantilism

2. Who is a Spanish conquer of the Americas?

• a) Middle Passage
• b) Conquistador
• c) Scurvy
• d) Montezuma II

3. What is a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies?

• a) Christopher Columbus
• b) Ferdinand Magellan
• c) Middle Passage
• d) Cartographer

4. What refers to the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' s voyages?

• a) Pilgrims
• b) Mercantilism
• c) Columbian Exchange
• d) Encomienda

5. What is the economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought?

• a) Vasco da Gama
• b) Mercantilism
• c) Circumnavigate
• d) Jacques Cartier

6. What is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C?

• a) Scurvy
• b) Pilgrims
• c) Mestizo
• d) Encomienda

7. Who were a group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom?

• a) Peninsulares
• b) Pilgrims
• c) Conquistador
• d) Jacques Cartier

8. Who was the Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Islands by sailing around the American continent, and his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

• a) Ferdinand Magellan
• b) Prince Henry
• c) Samuel de Champlain
• d) Montezuma II

9. Who was the Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration?

• a) Encomienda
• b) Prince Henry
• c) Scurvy
• d) Cartographer

10. Who mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India?

• a) Christopher Columbus
• b) Montezuma II
• c) Samuel de Champlain
• d) Middle Passage