WorksheetsRenaissance and Age of Discovery
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 4mins
Who is considered as the originator of the Age of Discovery?
Captain Cook
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Prince Henry
Prince Henry surrounded himself with:
Carpenters
Cooks
Mapmakers
Sailors
Prince Henry is best known for
The lands he discovered
For financing voyages to new lands
His famous voyages
For financing voyages to Europe
Which is NOT a motive for Henry's quest of new lands:
Profit
Spreading germs
Spreading Christianity
Quest for knowledge
Vasco da Gama reached India in 1492
by rounding the Cape of Good Hope
coming around Cape Horn
circumnavigating the world
finding a new route through the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
Modern technology was a key to the success of the Portuguese mariners, among them was the:
Spanish galleon
A corsair
The caravel
The square masted rigger
The mariner's astrolabe was a useful modern navigation tool. What did it do?
Good for anchoring the caravel
Pointing the caravel in the right direction
Worked like a compass
Plotted location by measuring the altitude of the sun and stars
The Renaissance means
New knowledge
Great art
Rebirth of classical knowledge
Pagan knowledge
Humanism is
God-centred knowledge
Human-centred knowledge
Animal and nature-centred
None of the above
Who among the following would be considered a Renaissance man?
Someone who can cook, cobble, run and swim
One who is a poet, does chemistry experiments, maps the sky
Good at mathematics
A brilliant artist
Leonardo da Vinci is considered a Renaissance Man because of his many talents. Which is NOT one of them?
Architect
Scientist
Alchemist
Military Engineer
Who is NOT a Renaissance artist?
Michelangelo
Van Gogh
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
