WorksheetsChapter 3: Age of Exploration
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who started a school in Portugal to teach navigation?
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Prince Henry the Navigator
c)
Kinge Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
d)
Pedro Cabral
2.
Which explorer was the first one to sail around the tip of Africa?
a)
Pedro Cabral
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Batholomeu Dias
d)
Ferdinand Magellan
3.
What explorer was the first to see the Grand Canyon?
a)
Hernando de Soto
b)
Francisco Vasquez de
Coronado
c)
Cabeza de Vaca
d)
Vasco de Gama
4.
In what year did Columbus first set sail?
a)
1490
b)
1492
c)
1494
d)
1496
5.
What was the name of the "Indians" Columbus first encountered in the New World?
a)
Caribbs
b)
Anasazi
c)
Arawaks
d)
Arapaho
6.
Where did John Cabot and his crew really land when they thought they had reached Asia?
a)
North America
b)
South America
c)
East Indies
d)
Australia
7.
"America" was named in honor of what explorer?
a)
Columbus
b)
Cabot
c)
Pizzaro
d)
Vespucci
8.
Who claimed for Spain the area that is now Florida?
a)
Hernando de Soto
b)
Francisco Vasquez de
Coronado
c)
Pedro Cabral
d)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
9.
What is the name of the imaginary water route through North America?
a)
Northwest Passage
b)
Hispaniola
c)
El Dorado
d)
Silk Road
10.
Which French explorer first sailed down the St. Lawrence River?
a)
Amerigo Vespucci
b)
Vasco de Gama
c)
Hernando de Soto
d)
Jacques Cartier
11.
Giovanni da Verranzo was an Italian explorer who explored the coast of North America while working for the king of
a)
England
b)
France
c)
Spain
d)
Portugal
12.
Which explorer crossed Panama to see the Pacific Ocean?
a)
Ferdinand Magellan
b)
Jacques Marquette
c)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
d)
Jacques Cartier
13.
Which French explorer voyaged down the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet?
a)
Henry Hudson
b)
Giovanni da Verrazano
c)
John Cabot
d)
Jacques Marquette
14.
Which Portuguese explorer discovered present day Brazil?
a)
Pedro Cabral
b)
Vasco da Gama
c)
Batholomeu Dias
d)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
15.
Which explorer was put a drift in a small boat and left behind by his crew after they took over the ship?
a)
John Cabot
b)
Jacques Cartier
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Henry Hudson
16.
They took lands and gold from Native Americans and claimed their new land for Spain
a)
Crusaders
b)
Conquistadors
c)
Missionaries
17.
It was used by navigators to determine the depth of a body of water.
a)
Compass
b)
Astrolabe
c)
Lead Line
18.
It begins when a country or king tries to conquer other lands and people.
a)
Crusade
b)
Empire
c)
Economy
19.
They made maps so explorers new where they would be going on their voyages.
a)
Cartographers
b)
Sailors
c)
Crusaders
20.
It was one tool used by navigators to know their latitude.
a)
Astrolabe
b)
Compass
c)
Sail
21.
The Silk Road was an overland trade route between Asia and Africa.
a)
True
b)
False
22.
Because he thought he was near the East Indies, Columbus called the Native Americans he encountered on his first voyage "Indians."
a)
True
b)
False
23.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain funded Columbus's first voyage.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of weapons between Europeans and Indians.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
Marco Polo inspire the European exploration of the world by conquering the Aztec Indians and returned to Europe with gold.
a)
True
b)
False
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