Early Explorers

The Portuguese three-masted became the most famous ship of the European age of exploration.

• Frigate

• Galley

• Galleon

• Caravel

Christopher Columbus visited European monarchs, looking for support. Finally, he found a sponsor in

• Portugal

• Spain

• England

• France

These were expeditions (actually wars) Christians and Muslims fought to control the Holy Land and resulted in Europeans interacting, eventually trading with Asia, and exploring the World.

• Crusades

• War of Austrian Succession

• Peasants War

• Hundred Years War

Using reports of explorers and information from ______________ and ______________ scholars and astronomers, mapmakers made more accurate land and sea maps.

• Chinese, Arab

• French, Chinese

• Spanish, Indian

• Greek, Roman

Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain. He had three ships. Select the three correct ships:

• The Niña

• The Constellation

• The Pinta

• The Santa María

• The Constitution

Oldest city in the United States founded by the Spanish in Florida

• Jacksonville

• St. Augustine

• Santa Fe

• Roanoke

Europeans, including Cortez, Pizarro, and Coronado, explored the Americas because they were trying to

• study the Native people who lived there.

• claim land and find gold for Spain.

• establish trading partners in the Americas.

• find a shorter trade route to Africa.

In 1493 Pope Alexander VI he ordered a line of demarcation, an imaginary line that reached from the North Pole to the South Pole, and cut through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Greenville

What explorer crossed the Atlantic on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francis Drake

• Marco Polo

• Christopher Columbus

What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?

• Straits of Magellan

• Northwest Passage

• Tasmania

• Cape of Good Hope