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WorksheetsCh 2 Age of Exploration
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Where did Lief Ericsson explore?
Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Canada
Europe
Prince Henry opened his navigation school to ________.
learn more about the world, gain wealth ($) through trade, and improve how people travel on the sea.
bring slaves back, learn about the culture of the American Indians, and improve travel on the sea.
learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and bring slaves back.
learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and improve how people travel on the land.
Bartolomeu Dias was an explorer who went to _____.
Canada
Caribbean Sea
Africa
Europe
_______ improved in the 1400's which allowed for more exploring.
trains
cars
shipbuillding
wars
Some improvements to shipbuilding include _______.
better storage and different shaped sails for faster travel.
better storage and different shaped ships for faster travel.
better food and different shaped sails for faster travel.
better food and different shaped ships for faster travel.
An explorers tool from the 1400s used to measure directions (north, south, east, west, etc.).
Map
Astrolabe
Compass
An explorers tool used in the 1400s to measure distance.
Astrolabe
Compass
Sails
Spain sent explorers to find new land, spices, and gold because it needed money for ______.
new ships.
new clothes.
wars.
castles.
Columbus sailed to __________.
Africa
Canada
the Caribbean Sea
Europe
When Columbus arrived to the Caribbean Sea at first he thought he was in _____.
Africa
the East Indies (modern day Southeast Asia)
the West Indies (modern day Southwest Asia)
Fremont
Hernan Cortes wanted to get rich after he saw what Columbus found in the New World so he traveled to _________.
Africa
Fremont
Mexico
Canada
The soldiers and conquerors that were sent from Spain are called _______.
Aztec
Mayan
Slaves
Conquistadors
Hernan Cortes got to Mexico and conquered the ________ and took their gold and other riches back to Spain.
African people
Inuit people
Fremont people
Aztec people
Copycat (Imitador) ______ followed Cortes to Mexico to get treasures (gold, silver, and other riches).
Columbus
Coronado
Dias
Ericsson
Conquistadors killed a lot of the American Indians by __________.
poisoning them and diseases like smallpox
fighting them and diseases like smallpox
taking their food and diseases like smallpox
taking their food and fighting them.
Conquistadors treated the American Indians ________.
as equal
like kings and queens
unfairly, or badly
The Columbian Exchange was a trade route between ____, ____, and ____.
Europe, African, and America
Europe, African, and Asia
Europe, Asia, and America
Europe, Asia, and Africa
The Colombian Exchange traded goods, ideas, ____, _____, ____, and ____.
animals, plants, slaves, and ships
animals, plants, slaves, and maps
animals, plants, ships, and maps
animals, plants, slaves, and diseases
Positive, or good, results of the Colombian Exchange are _______.
new plants and animals were introduced to people in the New and Old World
new diseases and slaves were introduced to the people in the New and Old World
new plants and diseases were introduced to the New and Old World
slaves and diseases were introduced to the New and Old World
Negative, or bad, results of the Columbian Exchange were ________.
new plants and animals were introduced to the New and Old World
new plants and slaves were introduced to the New and Old World
new diseases and animals were introduced to the New and Old World
new diseases and slaves were brought to the New and Old World
