Age of Discovery Unit Assessment

Poland is what direction from France?

• North

• South

• East

What year is this map representing?

• 1740

• 1450

• 1850

Which of the following was an Enlightenment Center? (use the key on the map!)

• Moscow

• Paris

• Constantinople

This is a current map of Europe.

• True

• False

Which of the following groups took over the city of Constantinople and the trade in the Middle East in 1453?

• British

• Ottoman Turks

• Africans

• Portuguese

Which of the following is a reason for European Exploration into the New World?

• To find new trade routes that went around the Ottoman Empire

• To spread Christianity

• To gain glory and pay for their expensive wars in Europe

• All of these reasons are correct

What was the movement in which scholars began to use the teachings of the past, specifically from ancient Greece and Rome, instead of the teachings of the Church?

• Humanism

• The Enlightenment

• The Reformation

Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church which sparked the beginning of the what?

• The Reformation

• The Catholic Enlightenment

• The Spanish Inquisition

This tsar westernized the Russian Empire and modernized the country to be more like Europe.

• Catherine the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

• Peter the Great

This Enlightenment thinker introduced the idea of natural rights, those being the right to life, liberty and the right to own property.

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Wollenstonecraft