Age of Explorers Test

What was the main goal of Prince Henry’s navigation school?

Determine the best answer to the question from the choices provided.

• to start a colony there

• to establish the slave trade

• to build a navy and start a war

• to find and control trade routes

Which statement best defines the Columbian Exchange? Determine the best answer to the question from the choices provided.

• the trade of goods and ideas between Europeans, Africans, and American Indians

• the passing of germs from Europeans to American Indians that resulted in epidemics

• a slave trade between Europeans and Africans that financed Columbus’s voyages

• the passage of European officials across the Atlantic to fill new positions in colonial governments

Label the routes that the explorers below traveled

Ericcson

Dias

Columbus

a

b

c

Ericcson

Dias

Columbus

Click on the image to view the timeline

Which statement is supported by the timeline?

• Explorers made many expeditions at first, then little or none until 1419.

• Trade increased until the age of exploration ended in 1499.

• Explorers were more active between 1419 and 1500.

• Trade by sea became common after 1000.

Put these explorers in the order they made their journeys.

• Dias
• Coronado
• Cortés
• Columbus

Look at the pictures. Then answer the question.

What boat would have been best for a long expedition across an ocean in the 1400s?

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Read each of the sentences about the Columbian Exchange.

Put the items in the correct place they were exchanged.

Groups:

(a) America to Europe

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(b) Europe to America

• disease

• corn

• wheat

• horses

• potatoes

Look at the graphic organizer.

Which was the cause of the effect in the graphic organizer?

• Spain wanted to create jobs.

• Spain needed money to pay for wars.

• Spain wanted to move its government.

• Spain needed to defend itself from American Indians.

Read the excerpt. Then write your answer on the lines.

“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.” —Christopher Columbus, 1493.

We now know that Columbus was in the Caribbean when he wrote this. Why does he call the islands “the Indies”?

Read the excerpt. Then write your answer on the lines.

“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.” —Christopher Columbus, 1493.

Which part of the excerpt shows the negative treatment of American Indians at the hands of European explorers?

• As soon as I arrived in the Indies . . .

• . . . on the first island which I found . . .

• . . . I took some of the natives by force . . .

• . . . in order that they . . . might give me information . . .