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WorksheetsUnit 3: The Age of Exploration and Trade (Section 1 & 2)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Where did Europe get many of its prized goods during the Middle Ages?
France
England
India
Indonesia
Check all that apply:
What were some of the foreign goods that Europeans sought during the Middle Ages?
Spices
Flour
Perfumes
Cosmetics
Medicine
Which best explains the network of trade in the 1400s?
Chinese---Arabs---Italians---other Europeans
Indians---- Chinese--- Italians--- other Europeans
Indians---- Arabs----Europeans
Chinese----Arabs--- Europeans
Check all that apply:
What were some of the tools that helped the early explorers navigate?
The astrolabe
The compass
Improved Maps
The globe
At the time of the early explorers, who were the world powers?
Spain, England, Germany, and Italy
Italy, France, England, and Spain
Italy, Germany, France, and Spain
Spain, France, Portugal, and England
Who is credited as being the first to reach the "new world"?
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Jacques Cartier
Who the new world was eventually named after:
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Sailed to the tip of what is now South America and to the Pacific Ocean:
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
We can thank this explorer for England's influence in North America:
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
The strongest weapon Europeans unknowingly had against the indigenous people:
Horses
Rats
Cannons
Smallpox
Hernán Cortés and his men defeated the:
Aztecs
Inca
Maya
Taino
Francisco Pizarro and his men defeated the:
Aztecs
Inca
Maya
Taino
Major empires of the Americas at the time of the conquistadors:
Aztec, Maya, and Inca
Aztec, Maya, and Olmec
Aztec, Inca, and Taino
Maya, Inca, and Taino
Helped Cortés and his men gain allies:
Atahualpa
Montezuma II
Malintizin
Pizarro
Leader of the Inca who Pizarro had sentenced to death:
Montezuma
Atahaulpa
Technochitlán
Chichen Itza
