Age of Exploration Quizziz # 1

To sail or travel all the way around is __________

• detour

• compass

• circus

• circumnavigate

An instrument that points to the magnetic north.

• circumnavigate

• compass

• astrolabe

• quadrant

This word means conqueror; it is used specifically for the Spanish conquerors of Latin America & the Caribbean.

• compass

• conquistador

• circumnavigate

• cannibal

This was widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and Europe.

• Cultural Exchange

• Columbian Coffee

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

Italian explorer & navigator; the New World was named after him

• Amerigo Vespucci

• America Ferrera

• America Young

• America Sierra

"In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue." He was the Italian explorer, financed by Spain, who ventured into the Americas.

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Champlain

Within the Columbian Exchange, what was the greatest cause of native deaths? 

• Warfare
• Natural disasters
• Poor treatment under enslavement
• Diseases from European contact

Who is the French sailor that explored Canada in 1534-1535

• Louis Vitton

• Napoleon

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

Who defeated the Inca?

• Cortez

• Columbus

• Pizzaro

• de Las Casas

What does this map show?

• Spain, France, and England had claims in the New World

• Portugal is the green region

• New Spain is the pink region

• Spain and France had claims in the New World