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Age Of Exploration
Test Description: Review of vocabilary and people
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) So Isabella funded ___, To sail around the globe, a journey that was wondrous. 1492 he sailed the ocean blue
A
Henry Hudson
B
Christopher Columbus
C
Ferdinand Magellan
D
Vasco De Gama
2) A Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to India by going around Africa between 1497-1498.
A
Vasco Da Gama
B
Prince Henry
C
Ferdinand Megallan
D
Christopher Columbus
3) Although my compass was broken, I was able to find my way across the ocean by using a sextant and bright stars for
A
astrolabe
B
celestial navigation
C
circumnavigation
D
scurvy
4) a Portuguese explorer whose voyage to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522 brought about the first circumnavigation of the globe.
A
Ferdinand Magellan
B
Jacques Cartier
C
Christopher Columbus
D
Robert De La Salle
5) The next territory humans have to ___ is outer space, which is why it's sometimes called the final frontier.
A
explore
B
treaty
C
circumnavigate
D
trade route
6) Nicknamed the Navigator, ___ financed many Portuguese explorations of Africa’s west coast during in the 15th century.
A
John Cabot
B
Henry Hudson
C
Prince Henry
D
Vasco Da Gama
7) The sailors followed ___ across the Indian Ocean that had been established hundreds of years before by spice merchants.
A
scurvies
B
circumnavigation
C
treaties
D
trade routes
8) a sometimes fatal disease caused by not having enough vitamin C in the diet.
A
celestial navigation
B
a cold
C
scurvy
D
treaty
9) For a long time, many people said that ___ “discovered” America when he sailed there in 1492, but now we say that he landed on it because many native people were already living there when he arrived.
A
Vasco Da Gama
B
Prince Henry
C
Ferdinand Megellan
D
Christopher Columbus
10) This explorer went to China with his father and brother to China. He stayed for 24 years and then came back home to Italy. He told stories of what he saw. Other people wanted to go there. Who was he?
A
Samuel De Champlain
B
Henry Hudson
C
Marco Polo
D
Christopher Columbus
11) What are three things sought after when they explored during the Age of Exploration
A
gold, God, and Glory
B
gold, greed, glory
C
God, greed, and glory
D
greed, gold, God
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