Age of Exploration Review

What is your name?

The time period in history when many European countries sent out explorers

• Middle Ages
• Age of Exploration

A person who travels in search of new places and information

• explorer
• salesman
• archaeologist

Tools that helped explorers know what direction they were traveling

• Iphone and XBOX
• compass and astrolabe

The first group of people to live in a specific area

• visitors
• explorers
• natives

An object made by humans in the past

• artifact
• artificial
• fossil

What skills did an explorer need to have?

• internet safety, hunting, archery, coding
• read a map, use a compass, use an astrolabe, read sky for weather clues, write in journal

An illness caused by lack of nutrients in the body

• influenza
• Covid-19
• scurvy

What were the four main European countries that sent out explorers?

• Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada
• Italy, Spain, France, England
• Italy, Spain France, America

What was one reason why countries sent out explorers?

• quicker route to Berlin
• quicker route to Asia
• compete with China