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Chapter 2 Age of Exploration

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is happening in this picture?

a)

Vasco da Gamma is fighting with Indians in India

b)

Spanish Conquistadors are conquering the Aztecs

c)

Native American tribes are fighting

d)

Christopher Columbus is trading with the Native Americans

2.

What vocabulary words describes the route in red?

a)

Circumnavigate

b)

Technology

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Navigation

3.

Whose voyage is this?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Hernan Cortes

4.

What relation does this graph have to the Age of Exploration?

a)

It has none.

b)

Native Americans left Mexico to go to Europe; therefore their population decreased

c)

The Spanish started to move into Mexico

d)

Smallpox was brought to the Americas by European explorers

5.

What country is this?

a)

Spain

b)

England

c)

Italy

d)

Portugal

6.

Who voyage is this?

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Leif Erikson

7.

Which of these events happened first?

a)

Columbus discovers the Americas

b)

The Aztecs build a great civilization

c)

Leif Erikson lands in Canada/North America

d)

The Spanish Conquistadors conquer and destroy the Aztec Empire

8.

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?

a)

New Spain

b)

Mexico Town

c)

Mexico City

d)

Madrid

9.

This image shows the exchange of things from the Old world (Europe, Asia, Africa) to the New World (Americas). what was this exchange called.

a)

The Columbus Exchange

b)

The Columbian Exchange

c)

Triangular Trade

d)

The Exchange of Goods

10.

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?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Vasco da Gama

d)

Leif Erikson

11.

Whose voyage is this?

a)

Leif Erikson

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Vasco da Gama

12.

Look at this voyage. Where did they start, where did they finish

a)

England, Africa

b)

Spain, Africa

c)

Portugal, India

d)

Portugal, Africa

13.

The Age of Exploration was...

a)

in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world.

b)

from 1400- to modern day. It is when Europeans started to explore he ocean

c)

When Americans sent a man on the moon.

d)

A time period when early humans left Africa, and travelled all over the globe.

14.

Compasses, new boats, better maps, the astrolabe are examples of what? These allowed people to sail to ocean like they have never sailed before.

a)

The Age of Exploration

b)

Science

c)

Navigation

d)

Technology

15.

People were interested in exploration because...

a)

They wanted to be rich

b)

They wanted to be famous

c)

They wanted to spread Christianity

d)

All of the above

16.

Conquistadors are

a)

Spanish explorers who came to the Americas and took Native American land and claimed it for Spain.

b)

Portuguese explorers who came to the Americas and took Native American land and claimed it for Spain.

c)

mini tacos

d)

Native Americans who build great civilizations in North and South America

17.

Which of these events happened last.

a)

Columbus discovers the Americas

b)

Leif Erikson discovers the Americas

c)

Conquistadors conquer the Aztec Empire

d)

Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the earth