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WorksheetsThe Age of Exploration
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by rounding the tip of Africa and landing on India's southwest coast?
Henry the Navigator
Dias
Vasco da Gama
Columbus
What device helped Europeans navigate at sea by using a magnetized needle that points to a coordinate direction?
Steam Engine
Compass
Astrolabe
Rudder
Which navigational device invented by the Portuguese had a rudder, square and triangular sails, several masts, and could be used to travel close to the shore?
Caravel
Astrolabe
Frigate
Compass
Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Queen Isabella
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Which was traded from the Old World to the New World?
horses and major diseases
squash, pumpkins, and turkeys
cocoa and horses
cocoa and llamas
Which was traded from the New World to the Old World?
major diseases
horses
potatoes and corn
slaves
Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:
to entrust
to connect
court
conquerors
In 1534, what French navigator sailed inland along the St. Lawrence River and claimed much of eastern Canada for France?
La Salle
Jacques Cartier
Amerigo Vespucci
Magellan
What was the motivation for exploration?
Write a book about it
Gold, God, Glory
Land, food, water
Position in the government
What is mercantilism?
A system where a mother country gains power by exporting more goods than they import.
where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.
A theory that global wars that start over money so countries should avoid it.
Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.
The inhumane voyage of slaves across the Atlantic ocean was called the
End of Days
Middle Passage
Final Destination
End of Freedom
Japan responded to European exploration by introducing what policy?
Mercantilism
Closed Country
Open Country
Free Trade
