WorksheetsThe Age of Exploration and Explorers
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
This explorer "Discovered the New World"
Jacques Cartier
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
This explorer is famous for being the first to circumnavigate the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
John Cabot
Hernan Cortes
The land route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.
Water Road
Spice Road
Silk Road
This explorer defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed all of Mexico in the name of Spain.
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
These are tools used by sailors.
Columbian Exchange
Compass
Astrolade
European invaders of the Americas defeated...
Native Americans (Aztecs and Incans)
Global Exploration
Climate Change
Another name for Europeans who took over the Americas was
Native Americans
Inventors
Conquistadors
When plants, animals, and diseases, were shared between the Americas and the rest of the world after Columbus's rediscovery of the Americas
The Great Trade
Columbian Exchange
Sharing Time
Europeans wanted to find a way to Asia so they could get...
Silks
Technology
Spices
Gunpowder
The "New World" was...
Asia
Europe
North America and South America
Many Native American died after the arrival of Columbus MOSTLY because of...
Wars with Europeans
European diseases and sickness
This explorer sailed for England. His expedition was the first group of Europeans to explore North America since the Vikings.
John Cabot
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
Ferdinand Magellan
What was the Age of Exploration?
When Eurpoean Countries explored other areas of the world.
When European countries explored space.
When European countries explored Europe.
Name two countries that were involved in the Age of Exploration.
What factor(s) contributed to the Age of Exploration?
New navigational technology
mercantilism
Desire for new trade routes to Asia
All answers are correct
Why were Europeans looking for a new route to Asia?
They wanted a quicker way
The Turks placed taxes on spices
It was dangerous
What is Mercantilism?
An economic and political system with government controlled trade
A navigational tool
A route to India
What was one of the effects of the Age of Exploration?
What is Globalization?
When different parts of the world become more connected
When the world got bigger
When Europeans explored
What is Colonization?
A navigational tool
Making the world connected
The process of settling an area away from your place of origin
