5th SS ch.3 test

In the 1400s, European entered into a new age of learning, science, and art called the Renaissance. They read about the riches of Asia, but they did not have the knowledge and the tools to reach Asia by sea. To help solve these problems, Prince Henry of Portugal started started a school to teach _____________.

• Technology

• navigation

• expedition

• benefits

People at the school created new kinds of _____________, including better compasses and astrolables.

• navigation

• benefits

• technology

• expedition

Christopher Columbus led an _____________ with the goal of sailing west to Asia.

• benfits

• expedition

• technology

• navigation

Like other explorers, Columbus was an _____________.

• entrepreneur

• expedition

• benefits

• technology

He convinced Queen Isabella to pay for his trip by promising her ___________, such as riches from Asia.

• expedition

• technology

• navigation

• benefits

Other explorers followed Columbus across the Atlantic. John Cabot sailed west to present-day _________________.

• Newfoundland

• isthmus

• grants

• missionaries

Cabot thought that he had reached Asia. _____________ knew that Cabot was wrong, though.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Colombus

• missionaries

He realized that Cabot and other explorers had found a continent that Europeans did not know about. Vasco Nunez de Balboa found the key to reaching Asia. He crossed an ___________ and saw the Pacific Ocean.

• Northwest Passage

• isthmus

• expedition

The sailors on ______________`s ship were the first Europeans to travel around the world.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Megellan

the ruler of Spain encouraged explorers to find riches in lands that Spain had claimed. Spain offered ___________ to those who led expeditions.

• prizes

• grants

• benefits