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WorksheetsThe Beginning of Our Global Age--Europe and Africa
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 12mins
Vasco da Gama led the first exploration around the world.
True
False
In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were leaders in world exploration.
True
False
What plague wiped out 25% of the European population?
Influenza
Insecticide
Bubonic Plague
What did Europeans rely on to acquire spices and other goods from Asia before a sea route was found?
Overland trade routes
Luck
Intuition
What is Prince Henry best known for?
Finding the Americas
Sailing around the world
Promoting navigation and exploration
What year was the Treaty of Tordesillas was agreed upon?
1560
1494
1999
Who proposed the line of demarcation?
Mr. Wilde
Pope Alexander VI
Ferdinand and Isabella
What ships help make exploration possible in the 1400s?
Caravels
Junks
Galleon
Vasco Núñez de Balboa established the first Spanish settlement in
Portugal
India
South America
How many ships did Ferdinand Magellan sail with?
17
5
1
What Portuguese explorer was the first to sail to India?
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
The Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant ___________ in distant lands.
Outposts
Monopolys
Plantations
What Italian navigator made four (4) trips across the Atlantic Ocean?
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
What Italian navigator went to his deathbed believing he found India?
Prince Henry
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Which was NOT a goal of early explorers?
Wage war on India
Claim land
Spread Christianity
What country developed an important school of navigation in the 1400s?
Germany
Italy
Portugal
What Portuguese explorer was the first to round the southern tip of Africa?
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomeu Dias
Prince Henry the Navigator
What city did Vasco da Gama leave merchants behind in?
Calicut
Casa de Oro
Lisbon
The Dutch East India Company was a _____________ power.
Righteous
Missionary
Sovereign
A cartographer is one who makes
Ships
Maps
Photographs of cars
Muslim traders would sell their Asian goods to European traders from the city-states of ________________ and ______________?
Venice
Madrid
Rome
Genoa
Alexandria
The Great Age of Exploration began at a time when Europe was leaving the Medieval era and entering the historical period of cultural rebirth called the
Age of Reason
Reformation
Renaissance
What was a negative effect of Portugal's exploration?
The Atlantic Slave Trade
More sea traffic
Pollution
What merchant-explorer were the continents of the New World named after?
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Prince Henry
What nation was the first to challenge Portugal's trade empire?
The Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe.
True
False
How long did it take Ferdinand Magellan's ships to circumnavigate the globe?
One year
Ten years
Three years
What did Vasco Núñez de Balboa claim for Spain?
Gold
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
What were Christopher Columbus's three ships names?
Niña
Isabella
Pinta
Oregon
Santa Maria
What did Christopher Columbus call the natives he encountered?
Indians
Natives
Indigenous
The Moluccas were known as the
The passageway to the slave trade
Entryway to gold
Spice Islands
To sail around the world
Sovereign
Cartographer
Circumnavigate
What percentage of slaves are estimated to have not made it to the Americas?
1%
20%
75%
