Age of Exploration Test Review

A small, fast, Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship from the 15th-17th centuries is:

• caravel

• conquistador

• caravan

• circumnavigate

The act or process of planning out a route or directing the travels, often of a ship is:

• silk road

• caravel

• navigation

• caravan

The Spanish word for conqueror is:

• caravel

• circumnavigate

• Conquistador

• Silk Road

A period of European History that began in the 5th century and lasted through the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is:

• Middle Ages

• Silk Road

• navigation

• Conquistador

To sail the way around something (such as the world) is to:

• navigation

• conquistador

• caravel

• circumnavigate

An ancient network of roads and travel that brought goods like silk from China to the Roman Empire and then to the rest of the Western World is called the:

• Silk Road

• Middle Ages

• Caravel

• Conquistador

_________ was an Icelandic explorer who is thought to have discovered North America before Columbus did.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Leif Erikson

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Christopher Columbus

__________ was the first European known to have sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa.

• Leif Erikson

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Christopher Columbus

In 1950, _______ led a trip to North America searching for a City of Gold. However, he discovered the Grand Canyon.

• Leif Erikson

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Christopher Columbus

One important thing that Marco Polo brought back from China was:

• gunpowder

• gold

• salt

• sandalwood