WorksheetsAge of Exploration
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
The major trade route that stretches from east Asia to Europe is called what?
Spice Road
Cold Road
Silk Road
Gold Road
This Explorer was the first to establish an Indian trade route by sailing south around the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco de Gama
Bartholomew Dias
John Cabot
Hernan Cortez
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.
Francisco de Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Franz Ferdinand
Francisco Pizarro
This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortez
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Which of the following is not a reason why Europeans began to explore the world?
to convert people to Christianity
to learn about new lands and people
to obtain spices from Asia
to develop new technologies
Which of the following best characterizes what it was like to sail the open seas in the 1400s?
calm and safe
strange and perplexing
boring and slow
dangerous and scary
What does it mean to circumnavigate the globe?
to sail from one continent to another
to sail all the way around the world
to sail from one hemisphere to another
to sail to an unexplored part of the world
Which religion did European missionaries attempt to spread to the New World?
Islam
Hinduism
Christianity
Buddhism
What is considered the "New World?"
Europe
Asia
The Americas
Africa
The king of this country turned Christopher Columbus down when he asked for money.
England
Spain
France
Portugal
Which was an immediate impact of the European ‘Age of Exploration’?
Britain controlled the western part of Africa.
For a short time, the Aztec Empire ruled the world.
Islamic culture spread throughout Asia and North America.
European economic, political, and social influence spread throughout the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Exchange of ideas between America and Europe
Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.
Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.
Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal
Vasco Da Gama was...
First Portuguese explorer to make it to India
Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
First European to make it to North America
