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8.0 - Age of Exploration Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

TWO reasons people explored in the 1400s

a)

Asian spices

b)

spread Christianity

c)

learn about new people and culture

d)

find new animals

2.

Name of the new Portuguese ship with triangular sails

a)

caravel

b)

compass

c)

astrolabe

d)

rudder

3.

Opened a navigation school in Portugal; credited with starting the age of exploration

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Magellan

4.

First explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa

a)

Bartolomeu Dias

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Magellan

5.

First explorer find a direct sea route to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa

a)

Bartolomeu Dias

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Magellan

6.

Captained the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe

a)

Bartolomeu Dias

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Magellan

7.

To travel around the world

a)

circumnavigate

b)

compass

c)

astrolabe

d)

caravel

8.

Credited with finding the New World while trying to find a sea route to India by sailing west

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Magellan

9.

First Englishman to sail around the world

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Prince Henry the Navigator

d)

Vasco da Gama

10.

 governors of a country or colony, would rule as a representative of a king or queen in a colony

a)

viceroys

b)

compasses

c)

circumnavigates

d)

caravels

11.

territories ruled over by the distant state

a)

countries

b)

colonies

c)

circumnavigates

d)

civilizations

12.

Name for Spanish conquerors that claimed land for Spain

a)

caravels

b)

conquistadors

c)

countries

d)

emperors