Chapter 3: The Age of Exploration

In the 1400s, a new age of learning, science, and art began in Europe. What term do historians use to describe this time of new ideas?

(a)  

• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Industrial Revolution
• Civil War

In the 1450s, Johannes Gutenberg played a key role in developing what important invention?

(a)  

• Printing Press
• Typewriter
• Telephone
• lightbulb

European merchants wanted to buy and then resell Asian goods such as ​ (a)   and ​ (b)  

• silk
• spices
• potatoes
• cotton
• gold

Sailors lacked the ​ (a)   the scientific knowledge and tools, needed for such a long trip.

• technology
• navigation
• expedition
• reconquista

In 1418, Prince Henry of Portugal established a school. What was the focus or subject taught at this school?

(a)  

• Navigation
• Cooking
• Mathematics
• Literature

What do you call a trip taken with the goal of exploring?

(a)  

• Expedition
• Journey
• mission
• Reconquista

What were the three known continents that many Europeans thought were the only ones, unaware of the existence of others?

(a)   (b)   (c)  

• Asia
• Africa
• Europe
• North America
• South America
• Australia

What was the name of the movement in Spain that aimed to ensure the country's complete commitment to Catholicism, initiated by the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile?

(a)  

• Reconquista
• Spanish Inquisition
• Protestant Reformation
• Judaism

What were the names of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his initial journey to the Americas in 1492?

(a)   (b)   (c)  

• La Niña
• La Pinta
• La Santa Maria
• The Black Pearl
• The Flying Dutchman
• The Mayflower

Which island did Christopher Columbus claim for Spain during his first voyage to the Americas in 1492?

(a)  

• San Salvador
• Jamaica
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico