WorksheetsReview - Early America and Age of Exploration
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 14mins
Select the 2 options that describe the Bering Land Bridge
It was a glacier connecting Asia and North America that early humans walked across during the last Ice Age
It was a bridge built by the Aztecs to connect 2 major cities in their empire
It was a glacier connecting Asia and South America that early humans walked across during the last Ice Age
The early humans who walked across it were nomadic. They were hunting animals such as wooly mammoth
Native American civilization which existed in modern-day Mexico
Inca
Maya
Lenni-Lenape
Aztec
Native American civilization which existed in the Andes Mountains of South America. Famous for their city called Machu Picchu
Aztec
Maya
Inca
Cheyenne
Select the option that describes Leif Eriksson
He was a Spanish explorer who explored Canada in the year 1000
He formed a strong trading partnership between Norway and Native American groups
He was a Viking who explored Canada in the year 1000
He started a school in Portugal to train sailors and mapmakers
A device which allowed sailors to learn their location on Earth by charting the position of the stars
Caravel
Compass
GPS (Global Positioning System)
Astrolabe
Portugal developed a ship called the caravel - which 2 special features made it great for exploration?
Square sails
Triangular sails
A rudder to improve steering
A higher mast for the lookout
Select the 3 main reasons Europeans started exploring during the Age of Exploration (1400-1600)
They wanted a quicker way to Asia to trade for spices, silk, and other goods
They were trying to get away from the Bubonic Plague ("Black Death") in Europe
They wanted to spread their religion (Christianity)
They wanted to get rich or gain personal fame/glory
Select the 3 options that describe Prince Henry the Navigator (remember he was from Portugal!)
He was the first person to sail around the "Cape of Good Hope"
He started a school in Portugal to train sailors and mapmakers
He paid for Portuguese voyages along the coast of Africa
He paid for ships to be built and maps to be made
A Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail around the "Cape of Good Hope"
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Juan Ponce de Leon
The "Cape of Good Hope" is the southern tip of this continent
Asia
Europe
South America
Africa
A Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope AND made it all the way to India (Asia)
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco da Gama
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus SAILED/EXPLORED for this country
Portugal
Spain
Italy
England
Columbus was the first explorer who thought he could reach Asia by leaving Europe and sailing in this direction
South
East
North
West
Where did Columbus end up on his first voyage in 1492?
India (Asia)
China (Asia)
Modern-day Florida
An island in the Bahamas (in the Caribbean Sea)
The Line of Demarcation split up the Atlantic Ocean between Spain and Portugal. It gave Portugal control of which modern-day country?
Mexico
Guatemala
Brazil
Peru
Ferdinand Magellan explored for Spain. Why was he so important?
He was the first European to reach South America
He was the first European to reach North America
His expedition was the first to circumnavigate (sail around) the world (proving Earth was round)
He found a Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
The "Columbian Exchange" refers to
The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World
A treaty made between Spain and Native Americans
A prisoner exchange between Spain and England
The rise of Protestant churches in Europe
Spanish "conquistador" who conquered the Aztec Empire
Francisco Coronado
Hernando de Soto
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish "conquistador" who conquered the Inca Empire
Francisco Coronado
Hernando de Soto
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Select all the advantages the Spanish conquistadors had over the Native American civilizations they conquered
Better weapons (steel swords, guns)
Horses
Help from other European countries such as England
Diseases like smallpox killed many Natives
Christians in Europe who disagreed with the Catholic Church and set up their own churches during the 1500s
Conquistadors
Huguenots
Puritans
Protestants
Explorers from these 3 countries were mainly looking for the Northwest Passage (a water route through North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific)
Portugal
England
Holland (The Netherlands)
France
French explorers claimed many parts of Canada which had an abundance of these 2 resources
Fish
Gold
Whales
Beavers (fur)
Explorer who gave Holland a claim to land in North America
Henry Hudson
Humphrey Gilbert
Martin Frobisher
John Cabot
