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WorksheetsCh 14- Age of Exploration
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
This term refers to a map-maker.
maptologist
cartologist
cartographer
mapographer
A term that means to travel around the world.
circumvent
circumnavigate
circumvate
circumplate
Complete control of a business, industry, or product.
monopoly
duocracy
socialism
monocle
A person who travels in order to teach about their religion.
preacher
monk
friar
missionary
A large farm run by an overseer and the workers live on the farm.
plantation
latifundia
estate
manor
This agreement established the Line of Demarcation.
The Berlin Conference
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Versailles
The Spanish Accords
This king pleaded with Portugal to put a stop to the slave trade.
Henry the Navigator
Osie Tutu
Affonso I
Ashanti
This religious zealot threatened to kill anyone transporting slaves through his lands.
Almany of Futa Toro
Bishop Tardillas
Pope Leo X
Osei Tutu
The Americas get their name from who's journals?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Captain Nathanial Merica
Amarco Polo
Amerigo Vespucci
The Line of Demarcation divided the eastern and western hemispheres between....
Portugal and Italy
Portugal and Spain
England and Spain
Italy and Spain
Osei Tutu was the military leader of what people?
Songhai Kingdom
Oyo Empire
Asante Kingdom
Mali Empire
Why did the southern tip of Africa become known as "The Cape of Good Hope?"
It had very calm seas.
The hope of reaching Asia.
The hope of making landfall.
The hope of getting back home.
What name has been given to the islands discovered by Columbus in 1492?
the East Indies
the West Indies
the Spice Islands
the Canary Islands
Why won't spices grow in Europe?
no monsoon rains
can not be transplanted
they don't produce seeds
Europe is too wet
What is Christopher Columbus' home country?
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Denmark
What country did Columbus sail for?
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Where was Prince Henry's sailing school?
Sagras, Portugal
Bologna, Italy
Barcelona, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
Where was the first permanent European settlement in Africa?
Malindi
Mombasa
Cape Town
the Congo
Why are the natives discovered by Columbus called "Indians?"
He was in India
They spoke Indian
He thought he was in the Indies
They had dark skin
Where did Ferdinand Magellan die?
the Philippine Islands
the Straits of Magellan
the Molluccas
Futa Toro
How many members of Magellan's crew actually circumnavigated the world?
15
18
21
27
How did Europeans usually acquire the people they enslaved in Africa?
African slavers
defeated them in battle
Dutch slavers
they went to Africa's interior
What lasting effect did the slave trade have on Africa?
African states united against slavery
African states started enslaving Europeans
African states became too weak to resist
African states rose up against Europe
Who were the Dutch farmers in Cape Town?
Bowlers
Boers
Bauers
Bears
Who was the first European to sail west and see the pacific ocean (South Sea)?
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama sailed for what country?
Spain
Portugal
India
Italy
What event led to Europeans' desire for luxury goods?
a need to explore
travel to Africa
the Crusades
The Plague
What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin C in the diet?
dysentery
cholera
scurvy
thrush
What delayed Christopher Colombus' journey to search for spices?
war with Portugal
war with Muslims
war in the Atlantic
the sinking of Atlantis
Which of these are the ships Christopher Colombus took on his first voyage?
Nina
Intrepid
Pinta
Santa Maria
