WorksheetsReview for Unit 2 Exploration
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
The historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity is known as the
Age of Understanding.
Middle Ages
Age of Reason
Renaissance
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta and
Cortez.
. Isabella.
Santa Maria.
Tordesillas.
Who was the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Pizarro
England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover a
route to Africa.
route to South America
southwest passage to Australia
northwest passage to Asia.
Whose voyage was used by England as the basis for its claims to North America?
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Robert de La Salle
Henry Hudson
Which explorer’s crew was the first to sail around the world?
John Cabot’s
Ponce de Leon’s
Christopher Columbus’
Ferdinand Magellan’s
The exchange of diseases, ideas and food crops between Europe and the Americas is known as
the Northwest Passage
the Columbian Exchange
the Trade Passage
the American Exchange
America is named after the Italian mapmaker
Amerigo Vespucci
Americano da Venci
Francisco Amerado
Christopher Columbus
What was Columbus looking for on his 1492 voyage?
a westward trade route to Africa
a westward trade route to Asia.
a trade route across the Bering Strait
a trade route to Central America
The earliest Native Americans crossed a land bridge called
the Bering Strait
Alaska
Atlantis
Beringia
In the 1500s, what changed the ways of life for Native Americans forever?
climate changes
wars between nations
lack of food
arrival of Europeans
Europeans were searching for a faster way to __________ to get spices for flavoring food, medicine and preserving food.
Asia
Russia
America
Indiana
New technology like the ____________, astrolabe and quadrant helped sailors to navigate in open waters and measure distances.
GPS
map
carrack
compass
Europeans were the first people in the Americas
True
False
England and France were the only European nations competing for land in the Americas
True
False
The King of Spain sent his Armada to attack France and Spain won
True
False
Queen Isabella agreed to fund Columbus’s voyage if he promised to bring a new religion back to Spain
True
False
The Netherlands was the only nation that sent explorers to find a Northwest Passage through the Americas.
True
False
The French and Dutch were interested in natural resources and traded furs with Native Americas.
True
False
