The age of Exploration "Study Guide"

Question 1

Which Venetian explorer’s accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?

Answer 1

Marco Polo

Question 2

What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?

Answer 2

astrolabe and magnetic compass

Question 3

Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?

Answer 3

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 4

What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?

Answer 4

Cape of Good Hope

Question 5

What important route did Dias’s discovery lead to?

Answer 5

a route to the Indian ocean

Question 6

Where did Vasco da Gama explore?

Answer 6

eastern coast of Africa

Question 7

Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?

Answer 7

Brazil

Question 8

Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?

Answer 8

Bahamas

Question 9

Why did Columbus call the people he encountered “ Indians?”

Answer 9

He thought he was in the East Indies

Question 10

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

Answer 10

divided land between Spain and Portugal

Question 11

What names was given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?

Answer 11

encomiendas

Question 12

What was the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of Indians?

Answer 12

Las Casas

Question 13

Where are the Straits of Magellan?

Answer 13

Southern tip of S. America

Question 14

What was the first English colony in North America?

Answer 14

Roanolce Island

Question 15

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Answer 15

Jamestown

Question 16

Which explorer did not visit North America?

Answer 16

D. Ferdinand Magellan

Question 17

What body of water did Vasco Nunez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro?

Answer 17

The Pacific Ocean

Question 18

Which trade got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France?

Answer 18

A. fur trade

Question 19

Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States

Answer 19

Giovanni da Verrazano

Question 20

Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?

Answer 20

Canada - Montreal

Question 21

Who were the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River?

Answer 21

Marguette & Jolliet

Question 22

What did Henry Hudson accomplish?

Answer 22

sailed up a river in NY found an inland sea in Canada

Question 23

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 23

the journey of slaves from Africa to America

Question 24

Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened?

Answer 24

Netherlands

Question 25

sextant

Answer 25

A navigational instrument used to measure the angle between two celestial bodies.

Question 26

cartographer

Answer 26

A person who makes maps.

Question 27

circumnavigate

Answer 27

To sail all the way around.

Question 28

colonization

Answer 28

The process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

Question 29

Indigenous

Answer 29

Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.

Question 30

fleet

Answer 30

A group of ships sailing together.

Question 31

monopoly

Answer 31

Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market.

Question 32

mutiny

Answer 32

An act of rebellion against authority, especially among soldiers or sailors.

Question 33

Northwest

Answer 33

The direction that is halfway between north and west.

Question 34

Passage

Answer 34

A journey or trip, especially by sea.

Question 35

spice

Answer 35

A substance made from a plant, used to give a special flavor to food.