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Page 1: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Age of Exploration Unit Test

Page 2: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with Asia

Page 3: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

What did Henry never do that was so unusual for an explorer?

• He never journeyed the sea

Page 4: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Henry founded this in 1416?

• School of Navigation

Page 5: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Alvise Cadamasto discovered these in 1456…

• Cape Verde Islands

Page 6: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

What did Bartolomeu Dias become the first explorer to do in 1487?

• Go around the Cape of Good Hope

Page 7: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Name 2 of the promises that Columbus made to Queen Isabella and King Ferinand

1. bring back gold, spices, and silk

2. spread Christianity

Page 8: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Thinking the island discovered on his first voyage was part of Asia,

what did Columbus name it?

• San Salvador

Page 9: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Name the first navigator to circumnavigate the globe.

• Ferdinand Magellan

Page 10: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

What year did Columbus sail from Europe to the Americas?

• 1492

Page 11: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Why did Columbus think he could sail west to reach Asia?

• Maps of the time period made the oceans look smaller than they were

Page 12: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

What were the names of the 3 ships Columbus had under his command?

The Nina

The Pinta

The Santa Maria

Page 13: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

What month and year did Columbus and his sailors’’ spot land?

• October 1492

Page 14: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

During the Age of Exploration the Americas was referred to as this?

Europe?

• Americas = New World

• Europe = Old World

Page 15: Age of Exploration Unit Test. Who essentially began the Age of Exploration and why? Prince Henry the Navigator Europeans wanted a DIRECT trade route with

Why did Columbus call Native Americans “Indians”?

• Because he thought he’d landed near India in Asia

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What was The Columbian Exchange?

• The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, and ideas between America, Europe, and Africa