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1 NamePRETEST

TRUE OR FALSE

Directions: Indicate wh ether each statem ent is tru e (T) or false (F).

1. Christopher Colum bus w as the leader of the first European expedition that attempted to

find a new trade rou te to Asia by sailing west from Europe.

2. Columbu s started the first Span ish colony in the N ew Wor ld.

3. In the fifteenth century, Spain and Portu gal were leaders in w orld exploration.

4. Vasco Da Gama led the first European expedition that sailed arou nd the world.

5. In 1400, no N ative American had ever seen a horse.

6. The development of gunp owd er by the Aztecs mad e it easy for them win m ost of their

battles with the Spanish.

7. Nor th and South America were named after the Americo plant found on ly in the New

World.

8. The earliest long distance explorations by fifteenth centu ry Europeans were along the

west coast of Africa.

9. The discovery of Australia by Europeans in 1410 was w hat m ade them th ink the w orld

was round .

10. In 1420, the best map of the world w as over one thousand years old.


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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Directions: Discuss the answ ers to these questions. Use this sheet to keep notes. Use the back of

the sheet if necessary.

1. What are some reasons wh y Native Americans resent the fact that Christopher Columbus w as

glorified for so long?

2. Why d o so many peop le think that Colum bus shou ldnt be credited for d iscovering America?

3. In the 1400s, there was very little comm un ication and trade between continents and yet today it isd ifficult to imagine a w orld w ithout these things. How do the countries benefit from these ex-

changes? How are these exchanges damaging?

4. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, wh at were some of the greatest differences between th e

European culture and the native culture of the Americas?

5. What cultural attitudes existed on the part of Europeans that made them feel that it was all right tobuy and sell Africans or to enslave native Americans?

6. One of the biggest changes that resulted from the Great Age of Exploration w as an u np recedented

shift of w orld p opu lation across the Atlantic ocean. Discuss the results of these pop ulation shifts.

7. How d id restrictions on trad e with the Far east help initiate the Great Age of Exploration?

8. What w ere some of the factors un ique to the Renaissance that helped prop el the Great Age of

Exploration?


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VOCABULARY LIST

Directions: From the vocabu lary list below, identify the followin g by filling in th e blanks:

a. Two early explorers who reached Greenland ____________ and ______________.b. An explorer w ho d ied in N ew Mexico in 1541 ____________ .

c. The Europ ean d iscoverer of the Mississipp i River ____________ .

d . The Spice Island s of Ind onesia ____________ .

e. The name of the person w ho created the map of the wor ld that led Columbu s to

believe Asia could be reached by sailing west from the coast of Africa. ____________ .

ASTROLABE A navigational instrum ent used by explorers du ring the Age of Exploration to find the altitude of stars.

This information h elped d etermine the p osition of a ship at sea. In the 1700s, the astrolabe w as replaced by th e sextant.

ATAHUALPA (ahtahwhallpah ) Ruler of the Inca Emp ire at the time of the Span ish conquest in 1533

AZTEC A Nor th Am erican tribe that d eveloped a high level of civilization and ruled central Mexico from 1300 to 1519

BALBOA, VASCO N UNEZ DE (14751517) Span ish explorer wh o, by crossing th e Isthmu s of Panama , discovered the

Pacific Ocean in 1513.

BLACK DEATH The bubon ic plagu e; a disease carried by rat fleas wh ich can bring rap id dea th. In the m id 1300s, abou t

25 million peop le, a third of the popu lation of Europe, was wiped ou t by the Black Death.

CABOT, JOHN (14501498) The Italian navigator w ho in 1497 sailed for England across the North Atlantic and reached

North America. Some believe he was the first European to reach the mainland of North Am erica.

CABOT, SEBASTIAN (14741557) Son of John Cabot , he explored the coast of Greenland and North Am erica in 1509.

CAO, DIOGO Portuguese explorer who discovered the mou th of the Congo River.

CARAVEL A small, fast, type of sailing ship that sat high in the water and that was used by m ost Span ish and Portu guese

explorers in the fifteenth an d sixteenth centu ries.

CIBOLA The myth ical seven cities of gold believed to be in the Southwestern par t of todays United States. It was the

search for Cibola that inspired the exped ition of Coronado in 1540.

CIRCUMNAVIGATE (sircomenavuh gate) To sail arou nd something. For example, some of Magellens crew suc-

ceeded in circum navigating the w orld from 15191522.

CIVILIZATIONS Distinct group s of people who have achieved a high level of social organization an d a re usu ally very

advan ced in both art and science.

CODEX A colorfully illustrated Aztec book. The Span ish conquero rs of Mexico destroyed nearly all of the Aztecs books

CONQ UISTADORS (Conkeestuh doors) Spanish conquerors

CORON ADO, FRAN CISCO (151054) Span ish explorer of the South western U.S. in 15401541.

CORTEZ, HERNA N (14851547) The man who led th e Spanish conquerors of the Aztecs from 1519 to 1521

CRUSADES (10961270) Unsu ccessful war by Christians against th e Moslems to recover the H oly Land. After the


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VOCABULARY LIST

Crusades the Moslems refused to allow Christian travel in their lands.

CULTURE All the things tha t make up a civilization such as its art, institutions, habits, and special skills.

CUZCO Capital of the Inca Empire located in Peru.

Dias, BARTHOLOMEU (14501500) Portuguese n avigator and explorer wh o reached the Cap e of Good H ope in 1488.

DORANTEZ, ESTEBAN (died 1541) The shipw recked African slave wh o guided the Coron ado expedition into the lands

of what is today the Southw estern U.S. He was killed at Hawiku h Pu eblo, New Mexico, in 1541

DRAKE, FRANCIS (15431596) Famou s English explorer and adventu rer. He w as the first Englishm an to sail around the

world (157780). He looted Span ish New World settlements and w as personally responsible for destroying m uch of the

Spanish N avy as w ell as the Portugu ese School of Navigation found ed by Prince Henry the Navigator.

ERICSON, LIEF The Viking adven turer wh o is thought to have d iscovered Vinland (North America) in the late tenth or

early eleventh centu ry.

ERIC THE RED Father of Leif Ericson. Eric the Red was a Viking navigator w ho d iscovered and colonized Greenland in

the tenth century.

GAMA, VASCO DA (14691524) Portugu ese navigator w ho in 1498 discovered a sea rou te to India from Portuga l by

sailing arou nd Africa. Vasco Da Gama also foun ded colonies in Africa

HENRY THE N AVIGATOR (13941460) Portugu ese prince w hose school of nav igation (foun ded 1416) helped start the

Age of Exploration. Prince Hen ry was very influential helping Portu gal become a leader in colonial expansion.

INDIANS Columbus called the n ative American people Indians because he believed the islands he had found were

near India.

NCAS A pow erful South American civilization from the th irteenth to sixteenth centu ries once located in Peru an d Bolivia

MAGELLAN, FERDINAN D (14801521) Portugu ese navigator and explorer wh o led the first exped ition arou nd the

world (15191522) but w as killed along the w ay. Magellan nam ed th e Pacific Ocean, a nam e wh ich m eans calm or

peaceful.

MARINER Seaman or sailor

MAYA Tribe of southern Mexico; Hondu ras and Guatemala that developed a very powerful civilization between 300 and

810 A.D.

MOLUCCAS The Spice Islands of the East Ind ies. Today the Moluccas are part of Indon esia.

MON TEZUMA THE SECON D (14661520) Aztec Emp eror from 1502 to 1520.

MOVABLETYPE PRINTING A method of pr inting first developed by the Chinese in the eleventh century an d rein-

vented in Germany aroun d 1440. By being able to typeset or reuse and rearrange the letters used to print p ages of

books, books were finally able to be mass prod uced for the first time in history. Inexpen sive books mad e access to infor-

mation mu ch more available to ordinary p eople during th e Renaissance.

NAVIGATION The science of locating and plotting the p osition of ships at sea.


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VOCABULARY LIST

NAVIGATOR A person skilled at nav igation.

PIZARRO, FRANCISCO (14711541) The man who led the Spanish conquest of the Incas in 1533.

PRECOLUMBIAN Refers to the time before Columbus arrived in the New World.

PTOLEMY (tallohme) An astronomer, mathematician, and geographer w ho lived in the second centu ry A.D. in Alexan-

dr ia, Egypt. In the 1400s, his map of the w orld w as considered the best there was.

QUADRANT An instrument u sed in navigation for determining the altitud es of heavenly bodies.

RENAISSANCE (renissonce) The p eriod in the h istory of Europe that follows the Midd le Ages (the Med ieval era).

The Renaissance was a rebirth of interest in art an d science that began in different coun tries at different times after

abou t 1400. Both the Age of Exploration and the Protestant Reformation began du ring the Renaissance.

SAN SALVADOR The name Colum bus gave to the island in the present day Baham as on wh ich he landed on October

12, 1492.

SOTO, HERNANDO DE (150042) Served as second in comm and un der Pizzar o du ring the Inca conquest. (DeSoto

actually sup ported th e Inca emp eror Atahualpa w hom Pizarro had h anged.) DeSoto went on to explore the Southeastern

region of todays United States and is credited with being th e European discoverer of the Mississippi River.

SEXTANT A navigational instru men t which helps determ ine the position of a ship by measu ring the angle between the

horizon and heavenly body. Inven ted arou nd 1730, sextants replaced the astrolabes used by m ost explorers of the Age of

Exploration..

SLAVERY A relationship betw een two p ersons in wh ich one is owned by the other as prop erty. In the emp ires of ancient

Greece and Rome, most people (up to 90%) were slaves. Spain an d Portu gal became the world s greatest slave traders in

later history when they took over the traffic in African slaves from the Arabs. The Spanish also enslaved hu ge nu mbers of

the Latin American native popu lation, especially the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas.

SMALLPOX A highly contagious, often deadly viral disease that causes thou sand s of tiny sores all over the bod y. Small-

pox was accidentally brought to the New World by Europeans. Native Americans had no natu ral immunity to smallpox

and epidemics of the d isease brought d eath to large num bers of their pop ulation. Smallpox was also the first disease to be

prevented by vaccination by Edw ard Jenner in 1796.

TENOCH ITLAN (tenochteeTLAHN ) Capital city of the Aztecs foun ded around 1330 on site of present d ay Mexico

City, Mexico.

TEOTIHUACAN (Tayohteewh aCon) A great city of ancient Mexico know n for its hu ge pyram ids. The peop le who

built this city, the Teotihuacans, controlled the Valley of Mexico for many centuries.

TREATY OF TORDESILLAS (tordayseeyahs) Treaty of 1494 by which, with the popes approval, the undiscoveredterritories of the world were d ivided betw een Spain and Portu gal. All lands w est of the Cape Verde Island s were to be

Spanish; all those to the east, Portuguese.

TIKAL (teeKAHL) A hu ge Mayan city located in tod ays coun try of Guatem ala.

VIKINGS Roving Scandinavians whose lives were based on p lund ering and seafaring. Vikings made it all the way to

North America four centu ries before Columbu s. Vikings are also know n as Norsem en.

VERRAZANO , GIOVANN I An Italian wh o explored the coast of North America for France in 1542.


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4a Name

TIMELINE

Directions: Using the timeline information listed below, determin e wheth er each

statement is true (T) or false (F) by p lacing the correspond ing d ates in the blank s:

a. Ponce de Leon reached Florida before or after the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Dates: DeLeon_____ Mexico____

b. The Protestant Reformation began before or after the Span ish conquest of Peru

Dates: Reformation_____ Peru____

c. Tobacco smoking began in England before or after Australia was discovered.

Dates: Tobacco______ Australia_____

d. Chaucers book on th e astrolabe app eared before or after the establishment of the

Portuguese N avigation school on Cap e Saint Vincent.Dates: Book_______ Naviga tion School______

e. Columbu s last voyage to the N ew World occurred before or after Vasco da Gama reached

India.

Dates: Voyage ______Ind ia____

1250 A.D. Incas settle at Cuzco, Peru, wh ich w ould become the cap ital of their emp ire. Cliff cities are built on Mesa Verde

in Southern Colorado by p eople known as th e Anasazi.

1330 A.D. The Aztecs foun d the great city of Tenochitlan w here they see an eag le sitting on a cactus w ith a snake in its

beak.

1346 A.D. In Europe, the Black Death, a huge outbr eak of plagu e carried by rat fleas, kills 25 million peop le, one-third of

the popu lation.

1347 A.D. The first guns app ear in Europ e

1390 A.D. The author of the Can terbury Tales, Geoffrey Chau cer, writes a book that tells how to construct and use the

astrolabe, an instrument for navigating by the stars,

1400 A.D Major impr ovemen ts are made in sailing ships.

1406 A.D. The long-lost map o f the world d raw n in the second centu ry by the geograp her Ptolomey is rediscovered in

western Europe. It becomes the best existing m ap of the world . Ptolomeys map m akes Columbus believe that Asia can be

reached by sailing w est from Europe.

1418 A.D. Prince Henry the N avigator organizes a School of Navigation and base for explorations on Cape St. Vincent in

Portugal.

1420 A.D. The first caravels are bu ilt. For the first time, an Asian sh ip enters the Atlantic Ocean by r oun ding the Cape of

Good Hope.

1440 A.D. The Guttenberg Bible is printed on a p rinting pr ess that uses m ovable type. This inven tion mad e it possible for

books to be mad e inexpensively, and , as a result, know ledge began to spread m ore rapidly than ever before in history.


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TIMELINE1431 A.D. The first Chinese ships reach Africa.

1442 A.D. The first au ctions of black slaves take p lace in Portugal.

1453 A.D. Moslem Turks captu re the great Christian city of Constantinop le. Some h istorians u se date as th e beginning ofthe historical period called the Renaissance. After this time, the Genoese pu t their financial sup port beh ind Portu guese

efforts to find a new route to Asia.

1465 A.D. Navigation by the stars is greatly imp roved over earlier eras.

1487 A.D. Bartholomeu Dias becomes the first Europ ean to reach th e south ern tip of Africa: the Cape of Good H ope.

1492 A.D. Columbu s discovers the West Indies in the N ew World . Colum bus also learns tha t compasses chan ge direction

slightly as the longitud e changes. After seven centuries, the last Moslems are d riven from Span ish soil. Leonard o Da Vinci

draw s a p lan for a flying machine.

1493 A.D. Colum bus d iscovers tha t native Am ericans use tobacco as a m edicine.

1494 A.D. Treaty of Tordesillas d ivides the world s un discovered land s between Spain an d Portu gal.

149697 A.D. John Cabot sails from England and explores the N orth Atlan tic region.

149798 A.D. Portugu ese explorer Vasco da Gam a reaches Ind ia by rou nd ing the tip of Africa.

1498 A.D. Colum bus d iscovers the A merican continent but believes it is part of Asia.

1499 A.D. Amerigo Vespucchi explores along the coast of South America and decides it is a new continen t and is not part

of Asia.

1500 A.D. The Inca emp ire extends along mu ch of the west coast of South America.

150204 A.D. The last of Columbu s four voyages to th e New World.

1504 A.D. Using a book on astronom y, Colum bus p redicts a total eclipse of the moon . He uses th is information to frighten

a group of native Americans.

1506. A.D. Columbus dies.

1507 A. D. A new m ap of the world u ses the name Am erica for the new ly discovered southern continent in honor of

Amerigo Vespucchi.

1509 A.D. Sebastian Cabot explores the coast of Greenland and enters H ud sons Bay.

1512 A.D. Portugu ese explorers reach the Spice Island s in th e East Ind ies (The Moluccas).

1513 A.D. Balboa crosses the Isthm us o f Panam a an d discovers the Pacific Ocean. Ponce d e Leon land s in Florida.

1514 A.D. Smallpox brou ght by Europ eans begins to w ipe out native pop ulations in the Am ericas.

1517. A.D. Martin Luther starts th e Protestant Reformation in Germ any.

1519 A.D. Ferdinand Magellan leaves Spain w ith five ships to find a south western p assage to Asia. Hern an Cortez

enters the Az tec Capital of Tenochitlan to m eet with the Aztec emperor.


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TIMELINE1520 A.D. Magellan roun ds Cap e Horn and enters the Pacific.

1521 A.D. Fall of the Aztec Empire to Spanish forces. The capital of New Spain (Mexico City) is built on the ruins of the

Tenochitlan.

1522 A.D. The last rema ining of Magellans five ship s, with its crew of seventeen m en, return s to Spain, end ing the first

voyage around the world.

1533 A.D. Atahu alpa, emperor of the Incas, is hanged by the Span ish conqueror Pizzaro. Spain conquers the Inca emp ire

wh ich w as already being destroyed by a smallpox epidemic and civil war.

1535 Span ish conquero rs found the city of Lima, Peru.

1539.A.D. Span ish explorer De Soto explores wh at is today the Southeastern United States.

1540 A.D. The Span ish explorer Coronad o explores the Am erican Southwest.

1541 A.D. The Spanish explorer Hernand o DeSoto explores the Mississipp i River.

1542 A.D. Giovanni Verrazano explores the coast of North America for France.

1543 A.D. The astronom er Nicholas Copernicus pu blishes a book which says that the earth an d other planets revolve

around the sun . Biologist Andreas Vesalius publishes the first accurate book on human anatom y.

1564 A.D William Shakesp eare is born. The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo d ies.

1565 A.D. Span ish found the city of Saint Au gustine in Florida .

157780 A.D. Sir Francis Drake becomes the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.

1586 A.D. Sir Walter Raleigh imports the h abit of smoking tobacco from Virginia to England.

1587 A.D. Sir Francis Drake d estroys mu ch of the Spanish fleet as it lays anchored in the harbor of Cad iz, Spain.

1588 A.D. The destruction of the Spains great Armada by Francis Drake and another comman der m akes England the

worlds greatest sea power.

1606 A.D. Dutch explorers d iscover Au stralia.

1607 A.D Jamestown in Virginia is established by th e English.

1609 A.D. Galileo bu ilds h is first telescope.

1610 A.D. The city of Santa Fe, New M exico is found ed by the Spanish. The French establish the colony of Quebec.


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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1. John and Sebastian ______ were a father and son team wh o sailed from England to explore the North Atlantic starting

in 1497.

2. The man who conquered the Incas for Spain was called Francisco_________________.

3. The first Europeans sailed ar oun d th e tip of South America un der the comm and of Ferdinand _________________.

4. Vasco Da Gama was the first European to reach the part of Asia called _____________.

5. Early in the fifteenth centur y, imp roved sh ips called __________________ made long sea voyages possible.

6. King ___________and Queen Isabella ru led Spain at the time the last Moslem Moors w ere driven from Spain.

7. The island of Cuba is in the p art of the Atlan tic Ocean called the ____________________ Sea.

8. Both continen ts of the N ew World w ere named in hon or of Am erigo ______________.

9. ________________ went back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean four times between 1492 and 1504.

DOWN

1. The Span ish conqueror of Mexico w as nam ed Hern and o __________.

2. Balboa w as the first Europ ean to cross the isthm us of Pan ama and find the ___________ Ocean.

3. The father of Prince Henr y the N avigator r uled the cou ntry called _______________.

4. Montezum a II was the em peror of Mexicos all-powerful _________ emp ire in the year 1519.

5. In th e 1400s, only trad ers from the Italian city states of Genoa and __________ could trad e directly with Moslems for

Asian goods.

6. The first attemp ts by fifteenth century European s to find a new sea route to Asia involved sailing along th e coast of

____________ .

7. After 1492, dead ly diseases carried by Europeans su ch as Measles, Tubercu losis and _______________ wiped out u p to

80% of all native Americans.

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MAP ACTIVITIES

Directions: On the maps provided by you r teacher, trace the routes of the voyages listed below.

Use arrows to in dicate the d irection of travel for each rou te.

(1.) Magellans voyage around the world (1519-1522)

(2.) Vasco de Gamas voyage to Ind ia (1497-1499)

(3.) Bartholomeu Dias voyage (1487)

(4.) Christopher Columbu s first voyage (1492-1493)

(5.) Christopher Columbu s second voyage (1493-1496)

(6.) Christopher Columbus third voyage (1498)

(7.) Christopher Columbu s fourth voyage (1502-1503)

(8.) Amerigo Vespucchis first voyage (1499-1500)

(9.) John Cabots first voyage (1497)

(10.) John Cabots second voyage (1498)


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NEW WORLD FACT SHEET

A favorite food of the Aztecs were cornmeal tamales, and althou gh they u sually filled them w ith beans, fruit, pepp ers, or

fish the Aztecs sometimes ad ded delicacies like insect eggs, boiled grasshopp ers, snails, and red worm s.

When Cortez conquered th e Aztecs in 1521, their emp ire of fifteen million peop le stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific

and was mad e up of 38 different p rovinces containing nearly 500 towns.

There were no hor ses in either North or South America un til the Spanish conqu erors came.

The following crops were not found in Europe until they were imported from the Americas:

corn (maize)

potatoes

tomatoes

avocados

chocolate

tobacco

By 1519, the Aztecs were sacrificing abou t 20,000 peop le a year to the gods by cutting ou t their beating hearts, and sincemost of the victims w ere prisoners of war, the Aztecs came to believe that war w as needed for their emp ire to survive.

The ancient Maya peop le of Mexico and Central America never established a single nation. Instead , they lived in man y

separate kingdoms that were often at war w ith one another. The Mayan kings were both head warriors and priests. The

kings often drew their own blood and offered it to the gods during religious ceremonies.

The Maya were the only native American people to inven t a comp lete writing system. Even though the Aztecs used

picture writing to record names and events only, the Maya were able to write complete sentences.

The Maya played gam es using rubber balls. They were not allowed to touch the balls with either their hand s or feet;

instead they had to hit the balls with their chest, hips and shoulders.

Abou t 5000 priests worked at the temp le of Hu izilopochtli, the Aztec god of war.

Today the flag of Mexico is decorated w ith an u nusual p icture of an eagle. This picture comes from an old legend wh ich

said that the Aztecs must bu ild a great city wh erever they saw an eagle on a cactus w ith a snake in its beak. That is wh y

they bu ilt their capital, Tenochitlan, where mod ern d ay Mexico City stands.

In the early 1600s, the following sup plies were needed to sup ply a ship and 190 men for a three mon ths voyage at sea:

four tons of salt beef 2,800 pounds of salt pork a few beef tongues

600 p ou nd s of salted cod fish 15,000 brow n biscu its 5000 w hite biscu its

30 bushels of oatmeal 40 bushels of dried peas 1.5 bu shels of mustard seed

one barrel of salt 100 pounds suet (beef fat) one barrel of flour

eleven sm all ca sks of butter one la rge ca sk of v inegar 10,000 gallons of beer

3,500 gallon s of w ater tw o large casks of ap ple cid er

Besides the supp lies listed above, the captains stores held some cheese, pepp er, currants, cloves, sugar, aqua vitae (an

alcoholic drink), ginger. prunes, bacon, marm alade,almonds, cinnamon , wine, and rice.


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8a NameQUIZ

(1.) MATCHING

Directions: Fill in the b lank with the correct nam e from the list below .

Ferdinand Magellan Prince Henry the NavigatorSebastian Cabot Bartholomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus Montezuma II

Prince Henry the Navigator John Cabot

Vasco da Gama Bartholomeu Dias

Amerigo Vespucchi Hernan Cortez

a. This man came from Spain an d landed in the Baham as in 1492.

b. This man ru led Mexico at the time of the Span ish conquest.

c.This explorer was the first person to across the Atlantic for England.

d. This mans father explored the coast North America in 1497.

e. This man was the first European to reach the tip of Africa.

f. This navigator w as the first European to reach Ind ia by sailing arou nd Africa.

g. This explorer d ied on the first voyage around the world.

(2.) TIMELINE

Directions: List the following historical events in the order in w hich they occurred by n um bering

them sequentially:

a. Fall of the Inca empire

b. Invention of the movabletype p rinting press in Europe

c. Completion of the first voyage aroun d the w orld

d . First Europeans reach Ind ia by sea

e. Vikings explore the coast of Canad a

f. Prince Henry the N avigator starts a N avigation School

g. Fall of the Aztec Emp ire

h. Colum bus return s from his last voyage to the New World

i. First Europeans reach the tip of Africa

j. Every p erson in the New Worlds first settlement d ies

k. Ptolemy creates the map of the world used by Columbu s

l. Moors are driven out of Spain

m. The Crusad es


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9a NameVIDEO QUIZ

Directions: Answ er the following questions as they app ear on the screen after the video presenta-

tion. Select your answers from th e list that follows each qu estion.

1. Trade with the Far East in the fifteenth century was controlled by Moslem traders who would sell

their Asian spices, silks, jewels, and porcelains only to Europ ean trad ers from the city states of____________ and ______________.

Florence Madrid

London Rome

Venice Genoa

Alexandria

2. The Great Age of Exploration began at a time when Europ e was leaving the Med ieval era and

entering the historical per iod of cultur al rebirth called the________________.

Age of Reason RenaissanceMiddle Ages Reformation

Counter Reformation

3.The coun try of _________________ developed an importan t school of N avigation in the 1400s.

England Scotland

Wales Portugal

Spain Italy

4. The exp lorer named _____________________ was the first Europ ean to reach Ind ia by sa iling

around the tip of Africa.

Dias da Gama

Vespucchi Coronado

Verrazano

5. The developm ent of new ships called ______________ helped make world exp loration possible in

the 1400s.

Galleons MenOWar

Frigates Caravels

Ironclads

6. Three importan t goals of the early explorers w ere to ___________ and _______________ and

_______________ .

Find new rou tes to Asia Establish dem ocracy in new lan ds

Learn more about geography Learn how to sail according to special lunar cycles

Claim land Bring the English language to China

In troduce Christian ity Find cheap labor for bu ild ing new European mach ines

Establish trad in g ou tp osts Wage w ar on In dia


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7. Columbus believed that the land s of ______________ lay on ly abou t 4000 miles to the w est of the

western coast of Africa.

South America North America

Asia AustraliaCaribbean Island s

8. The first Spanish colony in the New World was established by__________.

Julio Iglesias Bartholomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan

Hernand o Cortez

9. The continents of the New World are nam ed after a merchantexplorer nam ed

_____________________.

Vespucchi Columbus

Ponce de Leon Queen Isabella of Spain

Prince Henry the Navigator

10. In the sixteenth centu ry, a man named ______________ led the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs,

while a man named ______________led the Spanish conquest of the Incas.

Cortez Coronado

DeSoto da Gama

Magellan Pizarro

Montezum a II

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