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WorksheetsEurope Travels East
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 48mins
Which European countries were competing to control spice trade?
United States, France, and England
Spain, France, Portugal and England
Mexico, England, and France
Mexico, United States, and Canada
A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
Treaty of Paris
Diet of Worms
Peace of Augsburg
Treaty of Tordesillas
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Christopher Columbus
Vasco de Gama
Amerigo Vespucci
Emperor Hongwu
A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa, Cape of Good Hope, to the Indian Ocean, and to India.
Vasco de Gama
Hernan Cortes
Bartholomew Dias
Prince Henry the Navigator
He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Vasco de Gama
Leif Erikson
Cortes
Christopher Columbus
A small easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations.
Flag
Compass
Astralabe
Caravel
Portugal was going to travel _____ around Africa to get to Asia.
north
east
south
west
Which Portuguese sailor sailed around the southern tip of Africa, explored the SouthEast, then went back to Portugal?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco de Gama
Bartholomew Dias
Christopher Columbus
Which country sponsored Christopher Columbu's voyage to America?
Spain
France
England
Portugal
Portugal won the race to Asia when this sailor finally reached the India by going around the Southern tip of Africa.
Prince Henry
Christopher Colombus
Leif Eriksson
Vasco de Gama
New boundary lines from Pope Alexander VI for Portugal & Spain was called the
Line of Demarcation
Colombian Exchange
Treaty of Torde
Alexander Line of 1333
Where was Prince Henry the Navigator from?
Spain
Portugal
France
England
The first Europeans to challenge the Portuguese control of Asia trade were the
French
Spanish
Dutch
Cuban
Which European explorer travelled the Silk Route?
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Herodotus
Marco Polo
Vasco Da Gama
