Worksheets8.0 - Age of Exploration Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
TWO reasons people explored in the 1400s
Asian spices
spread Christianity
learn about new people and culture
find new animals
Name of the new Portuguese ship with triangular sails
caravel
compass
astrolabe
rudder
Opened a navigation school in Portugal; credited with starting the age of exploration
Christopher Columbus
Sir Francis Drake
Prince Henry the Navigator
Magellan
First explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Prince Henry the Navigator
Magellan
First explorer find a direct sea route to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Prince Henry the Navigator
Magellan
Captained the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Prince Henry the Navigator
Magellan
To travel around the world
circumnavigate
compass
astrolabe
caravel
Credited with finding the New World while trying to find a sea route to India by sailing west
Christopher Columbus
Sir Francis Drake
Prince Henry the Navigator
Magellan
First Englishman to sail around the world
Christopher Columbus
Sir Francis Drake
Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco da Gama
governors of a country or colony, would rule as a representative of a king or queen in a colony
viceroys
compasses
circumnavigates
caravels
territories ruled over by the distant state
countries
colonies
circumnavigates
civilizations
Name for Spanish conquerors that claimed land for Spain
caravels
conquistadors
countries
emperors
