Exploration and Discoveries Quiz

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

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

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

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

• Pedro Cabral

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco de Gama

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.

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