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WorksheetsChapter 2 Age of Exploration
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is happening in this picture?
Vasco da Gamma is fighting with Indians in India
Spanish Conquistadors are conquering the Aztecs
Native American tribes are fighting
Christopher Columbus is trading with the Native Americans
What vocabulary words describes the route in red?
Circumnavigate
Technology
Christopher Columbus
Navigation
Whose voyage is this?
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
What relation does this graph have to the Age of Exploration?
It has none.
Native Americans left Mexico to go to Europe; therefore their population decreased
The Spanish started to move into Mexico
Smallpox was brought to the Americas by European explorers
What country is this?
Spain
England
Italy
Portugal
Who voyage is this?
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Leif Erikson
Which of these events happened first?
Columbus discovers the Americas
The Aztecs build a great civilization
Leif Erikson lands in Canada/North America
The Spanish Conquistadors conquer and destroy the Aztec Empire
The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was destroyed, rebuilt and renamed by the Spanish after their conquest. It remains the capital of Mexico today. What is the name of this city?
New Spain
Mexico Town
Mexico City
Madrid
This image shows the exchange of things from the Old world (Europe, Asia, Africa) to the New World (Americas). what was this exchange called.
The Columbus Exchange
The Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
The Exchange of Goods
This was a Italian born sailor who was hired by Spain to find a new trade route to Asia. He never found a route to Asia but landed in North America. He had an enormous impact on the world. Who is his explorer?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Leif Erikson
Whose voyage is this?
Leif Erikson
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Look at this voyage. Where did they start, where did they finish
England, Africa
Spain, Africa
Portugal, India
Portugal, Africa
The Age of Exploration was...
in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world.
from 1400- to modern day. It is when Europeans started to explore he ocean
When Americans sent a man on the moon.
A time period when early humans left Africa, and travelled all over the globe.
Compasses, new boats, better maps, the astrolabe are examples of what? These allowed people to sail to ocean like they have never sailed before.
The Age of Exploration
Science
Navigation
Technology
People were interested in exploration because...
They wanted to be rich
They wanted to be famous
They wanted to spread Christianity
All of the above
Conquistadors are
Spanish explorers who came to the Americas and took Native American land and claimed it for Spain.
Portuguese explorers who came to the Americas and took Native American land and claimed it for Spain.
mini tacos
Native Americans who build great civilizations in North and South America
Which of these events happened last.
Columbus discovers the Americas
Leif Erikson discovers the Americas
Conquistadors conquer the Aztec Empire
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the earth
