Exploration and Technology

In hopes of finding a route to Asia, ___________________ started the first school to teach sailors about oceanic navigation, mapmaking and more. He sponsored 14 expeditions in 12 years to try to navigate to Cape Bojador. Finally, Gil Eannes was able to successfully complete the journey. This became a stepping stone to find a maritime route to Asia.

• Prince Harry

• Prince Henry

• Prince William

• Prince Charles

With ____________________ the government doesn't get involved with the economy.

• capitalism

• mercantilism

___________________requires a nation

to export goods worth more than the

goods it imports

• capitalism

• mercantilism

With ______________ the government is in control of the nation's economy.

• capitalism

• mercantilism

Which route did the explorer John Cabot take during his first voyage to the New World?

• from Europe to Greenland

• from Europe to South America

• from India to North America

• from Europe to North America

____________gave sailors a better way to steer their ships

• rudder

• stern

• sail

• stars

_____________ allowed sailors to use the positions of the sun and stars for navigation

• rudder

• astrolabe

• compass

• deck master

Put the voyages by the early European explorers in chronological order.

• Ferdinand Magellan, Gil Eannes, John Cabot, Columbus, Bartolomeu Dias

• Gil Eannes, Columbus, John Cabot, Bartolomeu Dias, Ferdinand Megellan

• Gil Eannes, Bartolomeu Dias, Columbus, John Cabot, Ferdinand Megellan

• Gil Eannes, Ferdinand Magellan, Bartolomeu Dias, John Cabot, Columbus

Which two of the following advances did Europeans borrow from China?

• compass and gunpowder

• square sails and gunpowder

• capitalism and square sails

• square sails and compass

Which statement is true about an early European explorer and the route he took?

• Bartolomeu Dias traveled around Cape Bojador.

• Vasco da Gama traveled to India.

• Jacques Cartier traveled to Labrador in Canada.

• Pedro Álvares Cabral traveled to Hispaniola.