Download Form C The Age of Exploration Test Multiple Choice: Identify the

Form C
The Age of Exploration Test
Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question
Read ALLanswer choices carefully before choosing!
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Which European country was the first to send out Explorers?
A) Spain
B) France
C)
D)
Who started a school in Portugal for sailing, mapmaking, and navigation?
A) John Cabot
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Hernan Cortes
D) Prince Henry “the Navigator”
The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to…
A) find a water route around Africa to India.
B) discover new lands.
C) explore the coast of Africa.
D) spread Christianity.
England
Portugal
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John Cabot was a(n)…
A) King of England during the Age of Exploration.
B) Explorer working for England who explored North America.
C) Explorer working for Portugal who explored North America.
D) Explorer working for Spain who explored North America.
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Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is credited with…
A) First person to circumnavigate the world.
B) Being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
C)
D)
Finding a Northwest Passage.
Rounding the tip of Africa and making it to India.
Which of the following were obstacles faced by the explorers?
A) Fear of the unknown.
B) Disease and starvation.
C)
D)
Poor maps and navigational tools.
All of the above.
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The expeditions of Conquistadors Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro resulted in the…
A) Destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires.
C) Colonization of North America by Portugal.
B) Capture of Brazil by Portugal.
D) Exploration of the East Indies.
8.
Portugal claimed which region of South America…
A) The Andes Mountains, where the Inca Empire lived.
B) What is, today, Brazil.
C) The tip of South America.
D) None of the above.
Form C
Use the map on the other side to match the voyage to each explorer.
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Which route on the map above represents Christopher Columbus’s first voyage most accurately?
10. Which route on the map above represents John Cabot’s last voyage most accurately?
11. Which route on the map above represents Vasco da Gama’s voyage most accurately?
12. Which route on the map above represents Magellan’s voyage most accurately?
13. Silver, during the Age of Exploration was…
A) Used as money.
B) Used to make navigational tools.
C)
D)
Mined in colonized regions of America.
Both A. and C.
14. The Spanish colonial economy was based largely on…
A) exports of Native American weaving and pottery
B) tobacco farming
C) the mining of gold and silver
D) fur and fish trading
15. Before the era of exploration, how did Europeans get goods from Asia?
A) Before the explorers, there was no way to get Asian goods in Europe.
B) The Ottoman Empire was made up mostly of Chinese and Indian people living in Turkey, so it was easy to get goods.
C) Chinese merchants regularly traveled to Europe by traveling through Africa and sailing across the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
D) Merchants traveled by horse or camel to Asia and traded with Muslims and Asian territories.
16. Which of the following areas had huge silver mines which enriched Europeans?
A) Peru
B) Canada
C) The Caribbean
D) United States
17. Which was not a factor behind exploration?
A) the invention of the printing press
B) spread of religion
C) competition with Asian countries for new land
D) rise of nation-states
Matching
Choose the best description that matches was each explorer did…
Christopher Columbus
Vasco Da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
18. Was given credit as the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
19. First explorer to find a sea route to Asia by traveling around the coastline of Africa.
20. First explorer to discover “new land” west of Europe and Africa.