European Age of Exploration Quiz

What is the European Age of Exploration?

• A period of time when European nations focused on trade within Europe

• A period of time when European nations focused on internal conflicts

• A period of time when European nations built new colonies in Europe

• A period of time when European nations began exploring the world

What was the act or practice of steering, directing the course of, or finding a way through called?

• Exploration

• Navigation

• Colonization

• Conquest

Who was the Italian-born explorer who proposed a new route to India?

• Vasco de Gama

• King Ferdinand

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

Where did Christopher Columbus and his crew actually land in 1492?

• North America

• Caribbean Islands

• South America

• East Indies

What was the name of the tribe that occupied the land where Columbus landed?

• Maya

• Inca

• Taino

• Aztec

What did Columbus and his crew mistakenly call the people they met in the Caribbean islands?

• Indians

• Explorers

• Natives

• Colonists

What did Columbus bring back to Spain on his second trip from the Caribbean islands?

• Precious stones

• Gold and silver

• Spices

• Enslaved people

What did the European explorers adopt to the New World?

• Diplomacy

• Trade

• Colonization

• Exploration

Who were the first known inhabitants of the areas we call North and South America?

• Native Americans

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Vikings

Why is Christopher Columbus considered famous despite not being the first to discover the Americas?

• He established the first European colony in the Americas

• He brought back valuable commodities from India

• He discovered the Northwest passage

• He was the first European to sail to the New World