European Exploration Quiz

What was the MAJOR reason for European exploration?

• Soldiers wanted to attack and conquer Asian empires.

• Rulers wanted to purchase Asian products.

• The closure of the Silk Road.

• Merchants looking for a quicker way to Asia.

For the Spanish the three G's allowed them to take Gold, win Glory and do what other thing to the Native Americans?

This picture explains?

• Democracy

• MErcantilism

• Monarchy

• Pesant Class Warfare

What was the importance of Hernando de Soto?

• He sailed around the World.

• He sailed around the World C.

• He was the founder of St Louis.

• He named the three rivers of Tennessee.

What famous explorer gave his name to the continents after making this voyage?

After 1600, most Europeans understood that ___ and they had finally reached China.

• the world was round.

• the Americas were a whole New World and Continent D.

• Europeans explored Africa.

• The C is given credit for...

Magellan is given credit for...

• Discovering Peru.

• Mapping a passage to India.

• Sailing around the World.

• Name the islands of the Caribbean.

Whose voyage would have made the trip from Portugal to Southern Africa and back again?

• Bartolomeo Dias
• Vasco de Gama

• Prince Henry

• Chrostopher Columbus

How many voyages did Columbus make to the New World?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What Portuguese leader made the trip around Africa to India and back?

• Balboa

• Vasco de Gama

• Henry the Navigator

• Bartolomeo Dias.