Age of Exploration, trade and colonization test

Sail or travel all the way around the world.

• exploration

• traverse

• Silk Road

• circumnavigate

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

The land route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.

• exploration

• traverse

• Silk Road

• Marine Silk Road

What is this technology from the age of exloration?

• compass

• sextant

• octant

• astrolabe

What technology shown here helped sailors navigate?

• gunpowder

• chronometer

• astrolabe

• compass

Where did Portuguese explorers mostly sail?

• North America

• England

• Asia

• South America

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

At the beginning, what was the purpose of Portuguese explorations?

• trade

• colonization

• sailing

• catch animals

What was the Spanish Empire wanting to do with their explorations?

• trade

• colonization

• catch animals

• sailing

Who's writings inspired future explorers?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo