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Ch 2 Age of Exploration

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did Lief Ericsson explore?

a)

Mexico

b)

Caribbean Sea

c)

Canada

d)

Europe

2.

Prince Henry opened his navigation school to ________.

a)

learn more about the world, gain wealth ($) through trade, and improve how people travel on the sea.

b)

bring slaves back, learn about the culture of the American Indians, and improve travel on the sea.

c)

learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and bring slaves back.

d)

learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and improve how people travel on the land.

3.

Bartolomeu Dias was an explorer who went to _____.

a)

Canada

b)

Caribbean Sea

c)

Africa

d)

Europe

4.

_______ improved in the 1400's which allowed for more exploring.

a)

trains

b)

cars

c)

shipbuillding

d)

wars

5.

Some improvements to shipbuilding include _______.

a)

better storage and different shaped sails for faster travel.

b)

better storage and different shaped ships for faster travel.

c)

better food and different shaped sails for faster travel.

d)

better food and different shaped ships for faster travel.

6.

An explorers tool from the 1400s used to measure directions (north, south, east, west, etc.).

a)

Map

b)

Astrolabe

c)

Compass

d)

Google

7.

An explorers tool used in the 1400s to measure distance.

a)

Astrolabe

b)

Compass

c)

Sails

d)

Google

8.

Spain sent explorers to find new land, spices, and gold because it needed money for ______.

a)

new ships.

b)

new clothes.

c)

wars.

d)

castles.

9.

Columbus sailed to __________.

a)

Africa

b)

Canada

c)

the Caribbean Sea

d)

Europe

10.

When Columbus arrived to the Caribbean Sea at first he thought he was in _____.

a)

Africa

b)

the East Indies (modern day Southeast Asia)

c)

the West Indies (modern day Southwest Asia)

d)

Fremont

11.

Hernan Cortes wanted to get rich after he saw what Columbus found in the New World so he traveled to _________.

a)

Africa

b)

Fremont

c)

Mexico

d)

Canada

12.

The soldiers and conquerors that were sent from Spain are called _______.

a)

Aztec

b)

Mayan

c)

Slaves

d)

Conquistadors

13.

Hernan Cortes got to Mexico and conquered the ________ and took their gold and other riches back to Spain.

a)

African people

b)

Inuit people

c)

Fremont people

d)

Aztec people

14.

Copycat (Imitador) ______ followed Cortes to Mexico to get treasures (gold, silver, and other riches).

a)

Columbus

b)

Coronado

c)

Dias

d)

Ericsson

15.

Conquistadors killed a lot of the American Indians by __________.

a)

poisoning them and diseases like smallpox

b)

fighting them and diseases like smallpox

c)

taking their food and diseases like smallpox

d)

taking their food and fighting them.

16.

Conquistadors treated the American Indians ________.

a)

as equal

b)

like kings and queens

c)

unfairly, or badly

17.

The Columbian Exchange was a trade route between ____, ____, and ____.

a)

Europe, African, and America

b)

Europe, African, and Asia

c)

Europe, Asia, and America

d)

Europe, Asia, and Africa

18.

The Colombian Exchange traded goods, ideas, ____, _____, ____, and ____.

a)

animals, plants, slaves, and ships

b)

animals, plants, slaves, and maps

c)

animals, plants, ships, and maps

d)

animals, plants, slaves, and diseases

19.

Positive, or good, results of the Colombian Exchange are _______.

a)

new plants and animals were introduced to people in the New and Old World

b)

new diseases and slaves were introduced to the people in the New and Old World

c)

new plants and diseases were introduced to the New and Old World

d)

slaves and diseases were introduced to the New and Old World

20.

Negative, or bad, results of the Columbian Exchange were ________.

a)

new plants and animals were introduced to the New and Old World

b)

new plants and slaves were introduced to the New and Old World

c)

new diseases and animals were introduced to the New and Old World

d)

new diseases and slaves were brought to the New and Old World