Unit 2 Test 1 Early Explorers Page 1

Primary and secondar sources are documents that give information about events that took place in the _____.

• Past

• Present

• Future

_____ are documents or other materials created by people who took part in events or witnessed them firsthand.

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

Letters, diaries, autobiographies, speeches, photographs, live tape recordings, first person newspaper accounts, and political cartoons are examples of _____.

• primary sources

• secondary sources

If your write an essay about something you did over the summer, then the article is a _____ because you wrote about things that you actually experienced.

• primary source

• secondary source

_____ are records or other materials created after events happened by people who were not directly involved.

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

Encyclopedias, biographies, textbooks, magazine articles, film documents, and third person newspaper accounts are examples of _____.

• primary sources

• secondary sources

An article from a textbook written about a war is a _____ because it describes an event that the writer did not witness personally.

• primary source

• secondary source

The _____ (1400-1600) was a time where European rulers began to pay for explorations to find a sea route to Asia rather than a land route so they could get there faster and spices are cheaper.

• Age of Excellence

• Stone Age

• Age of Exploration

• Ice Age

During the Age of Exploration, explorers were paid to find a sea route to _____ instead of a land route.

• England

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

Explorers wanted to find a sea route to Asia instead of a land route so they could get there faster and spices were cheaper.

• True

• False