Age of Exploration Review

Which tools were often used to navigate a ship? (Select all that apply.)

• astrolabe

• epidemic

• maps

• patron

• compass

The Northwest Passage was believed to be an all-water route through or around the continent of ____________.

• North

  America

• Central

  America

• South

  America

Sailors used astrolabes to tell

• direction

• latitude

• speed

• time

What is considered the "New World?"

• Europe
• Asia
• The Americas
• Africa

A settlement is a

• town whose residents agree to govern themselves
• place ruled by another country.
• small, newly built community.
• group of people who travel together.

Why is Roanoke called the “lost colony”?

• John White could not find his way back to it
• Everyone went back to England.
• It lost a contest with Jamestown.
• All the settlers disappeared.

An ancient network of road and travel that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman Empire and then to the rest of the Western world

• Middle Ages

• Silk Road

• Conquistador

• Caravel

A small, fast, Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship from the 15th-17th centuries

• Caravel

• Silk Road

• Conquistador

• Middle Ages

the Spanish word for conqueror

• Silk Road

• Conquistador

• Navigation

• Circumnavigate

To sail all the way around something

• Caravel

• Navigation

• Conquistador

• Circumnavigate