Exploration Motivations and Technology

A period during the 1400’s and 1500’s in which many explorers sailed the ocean and mapped the world.

• Age of Empires

• Age of Exploration

• Bronze Age

• Caravel

What was the Primary reason for the Age of Exploration to start?

• To find better routes to Asia to buy spices and luxury goods

• To find new crops to feed starving Europeans

• To ease overpopulation in Europe

• To find places where they could freely practice their religion

Label the European countries that took part in the Age of Exploration

a

b

c

d

e

Spain

France

England

Portugal

Netherlands

What country, led by Prince Henry "the Navigator", began the Age of Exploration?

• Portugal

• England

• France

• Spain

Why did Europeans want to find a sea route to Asia instead of using the Silk Road?

• Muslims and Italians controlled the trade routes

• The Silk Road was too expensive

• The Silk Road was destroyed

• Europeans just liked to sail

Match the following exploration motivations of early European countries

• Gold

• gaining world power and expanding Empires

• God

• spreading Christianity to other parts of the world

• Glory

• Acquiring wealth through trade and taking over land

What new invention helped spread ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation, improved literacy, and gave explorers the chance to become "world famous"

• The Printing Press

• Caravel

• Compass

• Cartography

The ​ ​ (a)   was a time of learning, which led to advances in technology and navigation that made it easier for explorers to venture farther

• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Age of Exploration
• Middle Ages

Small, fast, easily maneuverable ships

• Caravel

• Astrolabe

• Compass

• Cartography

An instrument used by sailors to observe the position of the stars and determine their distance north or south of the equator

• Compass

• Astrolabe

• Cannon

• Caravel