WorksheetsAge of Exploration Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which explorer is credited with "discovering America"?
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus
Which explorer is credited with being the first European to sail from Europe to India around Africa?
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus
Which explorer is credited with mapping the Hudson River and the North Atlantic?
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus
Which explorer is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus
The global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases.
Triangular Trade
Columbian Exchange
Transatlantic Trade
Globalization Exchange
Which of the following is NOT one of the motives for Europeans to explore?
Religious freedom
3 G's (God, Gold, Glory)
Escape from oppressive rulers
Searching for a trade route to Asia
Used for over 1600 years - what was the primary trade route connecting Asia to Europe?
The Salt Route
The Saharan Route
The Silk Road
The Cloth Road
The need for a direct _______ route to Asia marked the start of the Age of Exploration.
land
sea
air
train
The first country that started exploring by sea thanks to prince Henry the Navigator was:
Portugal
Spain
India
Netherlands
A new type of ship capable of sailing in the open ocean.
astrolabe
compass
canoe
caravel
A device to help sailors determine their location using stars.
compas
astrolabe
compass
caravel
He established a school of navigation in Portugal.
Prince Henry
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
This European country claimed and settled the Great Lakes area of North America and the Mississippi River down to New Orleans.
England
Spain
Portugal
France
The science of map making.
caravel
cartography
compass
astrolabe
A device that shows the direction north.
compass
astrolabe
caravel
cartography
A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
Prince Henry
Hernando deSoto explored the southeastern United States and claimed lands for:
Spain
Portugal
England
France
What motivated Europeans to explore and settle new territory?
To be wealthy / gold, silks, spices (GOLD)
seek religious freedom (GOD)
competition with other countries (GLORY)
all of the above
settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control
City
Colony
River Valley Civilization
Boom town
Which European conquistador was the first to successfully sail around the southern tip of Africa?
Ponce de Leon
Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
North and South America are named after this explorer.
Magellan
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Henry the Navigator
What did most New World Native Americans die from?
European diseases
War with the explorers
Drowning
Starvation
What three countries were dominated during the Age of Exploration?
Spain, Italy, Egypt
England, Spain, Portugal
Spain, France, Portugal
England, Italy Spain
Who conquered the Inca empire?
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Vasco de Gama
Francisco Pizzaro
Many explorers were trying to find a water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This route would be called the:
Mississippi River
Northwest Passage
Transatlantic Passage
East West Passage
His crew was the first to circumnavigate (sail around) the world.
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortex
He was a Portuguese explorer and the first European who reached India by sailing south around Africa.
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
Globalization
