Explorers Unit 23-24

Which of the following would have gotten GOLD for the explorers?

• natural resources (spices, silks, furs)

• food

• water

• work

Choose the country that was NOT sending explorers to the New World.

• England

• France

• Japan

• Spain

Which religion were explorers bringing to the new world?

• they did not bring religion to the new world

• Christianity/Catholicism

True/false: Some explorers forced native people in the New World to believe their religion.

• true

• false

True/false: Many native people in the New World died because the explorers brought diseases that they couldn't recover from.

• true

• false

true/false: The Age of Exploration was good for the native people of the New World.

• true

• false

Who paid for most of the expeditions during the Age of Exploration?

• the explorers' brothers

• townspeople in the explorers' hometowns

• the sailors who joined the ships

• kings and queens of Old World countries

Why was it called the Age of Exploration?

• all the countries were the same age

• all the explorers were the same age

• no one was exploring anything

• lots of people were exploring for god, gold, and glory

Which explorer used the land route to Asia, the Silk Road, to explore?

• Marco Polo

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?

• Marco Polo

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier