WorksheetsAge of Exploration Vocab and Explorers
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A period during the 1400’s and 1500’s in which many explorers sailed the ocean and mapped the world.
a)
Age of Empires
b)
Age of Exploration
c)
Bronze Age
d)
Caravel
2.
An instrument used by sailors to observe the position of the stars.
a)
Motivation
b)
Astrolabe
c)
Colony
d)
Caravel
3.
Small, fast ship with a broad bow.
a)
Caravel
b)
Astrolabe
c)
Conflict
d)
Cooperation
4.
Exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas.
a)
Northwest Passage
b)
Colony
c)
Silk Road
d)
Columbian Exchange
5.
The trade route where goods and enslaved people were exchanged between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Transatlantic Slave Trade
6.
The trade route which exchanged goods, ideas, and diseases, across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Transatlantic Slave Trade
7.
This explorer is famous for mapping and contacting the islands in the Pacific.
a)
James Cook
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Henry Hudson
d)
Ferdinand Magellan
8.
This explorer is famous for being the first to try and circumnavigate the globe.
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
James Cook
9.
This explorer is famous for discovering the Cape of Good Hope.
a)
Bartholomew Dias
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
James Cook
10.
This explorer is famous for being a pirate that was later hired by Queen Elizabeth to plunder Spanish trade ships for gold.
a)
James Cook
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Sir Francis Drake
d)
Henry Hudson
11.
A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others
a)
caravel
b)
missionary
c)
explore
d)
colony
12.
A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
a)
economics
b)
exploration
c)
colonize
d)
conquistador
13.
Cartography
a)
Navigation
b)
Geography
c)
Mapmaking
d)
Astronomy
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