The Age of Exploration - Unit 3

Match the definition to the vocabulary word.

• conquistador

• a Spanish conqueror and fortune hunter

• expedition

• an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly

• navigation

• a long journey designed to explore new and unknown lands

• epidemic

• the science of determining the location of where you are and where you are going

• settlement

• a place that was previously uninhabited where people establish a community

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Why did the Europeans begin the Age of Exploration?

• in order to find a faster way to Asia

• to make more money

• to spread Christianity

• to build better ships

• to gain fame

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Before the Age of Exploration began, who were the first Europeans to visit the Americas?

• The Aztec

• the Dutch

• the English

• the Spanish

• the Vikings

In the beginning of the Age of Exploration, these Europeans rounded Africa in order to reach Asia. However, they did found a colony in South America, Brazil, which they found by accident.

• the Dutch

• the English

• the French

• the Portuguese

• the Spanish

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The Age of Exploration saw a lot of improved technologies in order to navigate the open ocean. Specifically, the Europeans learned to build better vessels. Choose the example of an improved vessel.

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Originally from Genoa in modern day Italy, the explorer took four voyages to the New World for Spain. He never realized he had discovered the New World, instead he believed that he had reach the Indies in East Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco de Gama

• Henry Hudson

• Giovanni de Verrazzano

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Which Spanish conquistador illegally invaded and conquered the Aztec Empire?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Francisco Pizzaro

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Which navigator and pirate sailed around the world for the English, attacked Spanish treasure fleets, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Sir Francis Drake

• Henry Hudson

• Giovanni de Verrazano

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Which Spanish conquistador invaded and conquered the Inca Empire?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Francisco Pizzaro

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What was the Columbian Exchange?

• another name for the slave trade

• the name of the Voyages of Columbus

• the affect of the Europeans visiting the New World

• the movement of people, plants, and animals from the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) to the New World (the Americas)

• another name for the Silk Road

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