Age of Exploration Quiz

In the 1400s, the first Portuguese explorers sailed along the coast of Africa. What was the main purpose of their voyages?

• finding a water route to India’s spices

• finding natives who would trade with them

• finding slaves who could be sold in other lands

• finding a new world that no European had ever seen

Match the explorers' pictures to their names

• Christopher Columbus

• 
• Francisco Pizzaro

• 
• Juan Ponce de Leon

• 
• Ferdinand Magellan

• 
• Hernan Cortes

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Match the explorers' pictures to their names

• Marco Polo

• 
• Vasco de Gama

• 
• Bartolomeu Dias

• 
• Prince Henry

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Sort each explorer into the country they explored for. It may be different than their nationality.

Groups:

(a) Spain

,

(b) Portugal

,

(c) England

,

(d) France

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Walter Raleigh

• Jacques Marquette

• Louis Jolliet

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Samuel de Champlain

• Prince Henry

• John Smith

• Hernan Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

Place the colonization of the New World by Europeans in the correct chronological order

• Spain

• England

• France

Identify the locations of European settlement in North America

a

b

c

England

Spain

France

Portugal

Sweden

The largest colony in the New World was ​ (a)   . Although, the first English settlement was ​ (b)   it was ultimately unsuccessful. Instead, English settlement begins with ​ (c)   in modern-day Virginia.

• New Spain
• New France
• Jamestown
• Roanoke
• New England
• Nova Scotia

What are the 3 G's that sum up the motivation of Europeans to explore?

• Gold, Geography, and Government

• God, Glory, and Gold

• Goods, Games, and Governance

• Gospel, Growth, and Gratitude

Tags

4.1

The legacy of ​ (a)   settlement of America can be seen in place names like ​ (b)   ​ (c)   and ​ (d)  

• French
• Louisiana
• Baton Rouge
• New Orleans
• Nova Scotia
• Plymouth
• Raleigh
• English
• Jamestown

Divide the world according to the Treaty of Tordesillas