Exploration and Discoveries Quiz

Exploration and Discoveries Quiz

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Exploration and Discoveries Quiz

Exploration and Discoveries Quiz

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Quiz

Social Studies

7th Grade

Hard

Created by

Holly Allen

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6 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which was a purpose of Spanish and Portuguese voyages of exploration?

establishing sea routes to the Indies to make profits from trade

studying the governments of other countries around the world

claiming lands for settling convicts

investigating major world religions to bring back to their countries

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Portuguese nobleman led a fleet of 13 ships on a voyage to India but first sailed west to use the winds?

Vasco de Gama

Bartolomeu Dias

Pedro Cabral

Prince Henry the Navigator

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is not an accurate description of Christopher Columbus?

an Italian seafarer who gained sponsorship from Spain

a Spanish explorer who accurately estimated the sizes of Asia and Europe

a talented navigator who relied on faulty estimates of the earth's circumference

the European explorer who was convinced he had reached the Indies when he made landfall in the Americas

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the globe?

Pedro Cabral

Christopher Columbus

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco de Gama

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is an accurate description of Bartolomeu Dias?

He was sent by the Portuguese court to find the southern tip of Africa.

He was the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa.

He knew that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic.

He introduced the Portuguese language in what is now Brazil.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is an accurate use of the term "New World"?

the fifteenth and sixteenth century European view of the Americas

the increased knowledge of the earth as a result of the European voyages of exploration

the term given to Spanish culture in the Americas

the geographic designation for all lands in the Southern Hemisphere