Age of Exploration Test

Which of the following are the three motivations for the Age of Exploration?

• god

• gold

• glory

• government

Place the explorer into the correct country.

Groups:

(a) England

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(b) Spain

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(c) Portugal

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(d) France

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Hernando de Soto

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Jaques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

Name the explorer who traveled on this route who landed in the Americas in 1492.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama

Name the explorer who traveled this route from France to Canada who is the reason people in Canada speak French today.

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama
• Jacques Cartier
• Amerigo Vespucci

Jacques Cartier sailed from ​ (a)   to ​ (b)   .

• France
• Canada
• Spain
• Brazil
• New York
• Mexico

​ (a)   sailed for England and settled the area that would become New York City.

• Christopher Columbus
• Jacques Cartier
• Hernando de Soto
• Henry Hudson

​ (a)   sailed for Spain and settled the areas around the Mississippi River.

• Hernando de Soto
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci

​ (a)   sailed for Spain and was the first man to circumnavigate the globe (although he actually didn't).

• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Hernando de Soto

​ (a)   sailed for Spain and was a mapmaker who discovered that he was charting a new territory. The continents he discovered are named after him today.

• Christopher Columbus
• Hernando de Soto
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan

Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama both sailed for ​ (a)   . ​ (b)   was the first man to reach the southern tip of Africa. ​ (c)   was the first to find a water route to Asia. They needed a water route because Europeans could no longer pass through the city of ​ (d)   .

• Portugal
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Vasco da Gama
• Constantinople