Age of Exploration 5th grade Review 2024

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

• Middle Ages

• circumnavigate

• Conquistador

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

• Middle Ages

• circumnavigate

• Conquistador

The Spanish word for conqueror:

• circumnavigate

• Conquistador

• caravel

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:

• caravel

• Silk Road

• navigation

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

• caravel

• Silk Road

• navigation

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

• Conquistador

• caravel

• Silk Road

One important thing that Marco Polo brought back from China was __________, printing, or gunpowder.

• paper coins

• paper money

• paper lanterns

Leif Eriksson was an Icelandic explorer who discovered __________ before Columbus did.

• South America

• North America

• Africa

The first crew to circumnavigate the world was the crew of __________.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Ferdinand Magellan

Songhai was a powerful kingdom that ruled most of West Africa that controlled trade of items like ______ and gold.

• silk

• salt

• silver