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Ch.1 Age of Exploration

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which European really discovered America first?

a)

Leif Erikson

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Bartolomeu Dias

2.
Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?
a)
Hernan Cortes
b)
Ferdinand
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Leif Erikson
3.
What was a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange?
a)
Horses
b)
Corn
c)
Potatoes 
d)
Death and Disease
4.
What is a conquistador?
a)
An explorer
b)
A Spanish missionary
c)
A Spanish soldier who conquered
d)
A Spanish soldier who made peace
5.
Which man conquered the Aztec?
a)
Francisco Hernan
b)
Hernan Hernan
c)
Hernandez Marquez Enriquez
d)
Hernan Cortes
6.

Which one of these served as a Spanish trading post and government center?

a)

Presidio

b)

Pueblo

c)

Mission

7.

Which one of these were started by Spanish Priests in order to make the Native Americans Catholic?

a)

Presidio

b)

Pueblo

c)

Mission

8.

When did Christopher Columbus make his first voyage of exploration?

a)

1592

b)

1392

c)

1192

d)

1492

9.

Which one of these was a Spanish military base in the Amerricas?

a)

Mission

b)

Presidio

c)

Pueblo

10.

What is the strip of land that connected North America and Asia during the Ice Age called?

a)

The Bering Land Bridge

b)

The Asia-America Land Bridge

c)

The Big Bear Bridge

d)

The Ice Age Land Bridge

11.

What is a movement of people or animals from one place to another called?

a)

Migration

b)

Manifestation

c)

Importation

12.

These people crossed the Bering Land Bridge over 10,000 years ago.

a)

Paleo-Indians

b)

Europeans

c)

Africans

d)

Leif Erikson