WorksheetsCore Knowledge 5 Age of Exploration Part 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which Venetian explorer’s accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?
Marco Polo
Giovanni de Verrazano
Giovanni Caboto
Christopher Columbus
What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?
hull and caravel
astrolabe and magnetic compass
hourglass and sextant
lateen and knots
Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?
Vasco de Gama
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias
Pedro Alvares Cabral
What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?
Straits of Magellan
Northwest Passage
Tasmania
Cape of Good Hope
What important route did Dias’s discovery lead to?
a westward route to the Spice Islands
a polar route to the Americas
a route to the Indian Ocean
a path around South America
Where did Vasco da Gama explore?
Newfoundland
the eastern coast of North America
the eastern coast of Africa
Caribbean islands
Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?
Brazil
the Canary Islands
North America
Java
Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?
the East Indies
the Bahamas
Cape of Good Hope
Virginia
Why did Columbus call the people he encountered “Indians”?
It was the Spanish word for strangers.
They looked like people he had seen in India.
That is the name they called themselves.
He thought he had reached the East Indies.
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
divided the western hemisphere into North and South America
legalized the slave trade
divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
permitted slavery in the Americas
What was the Middle Passage?
the journey of enslaved Africans from the market to the plantations where they worked
the journey around the Cape of Good Hope on the way to the Indian Ocean
the journey through the Straits of Magellan on the way to the Pacific Ocean
the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened?
England
France
Spain
the Netherlands
