Age of exploration

What time period was the Age of Exploration?

• 1400s-1500s

• 1400s-1600s

• 1500s-1700s

• 1800s-1900s

What was the Age of Exploration?

• A time period where European countries traded land with North America.

• A time period when explorers wanted to claim land.

• A time period where European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners.

• A time period where European explorers sailed to other countries.

What was Christopher Columbus's goal of exploration?

• To reach Asia by sailing Northwest.

• To reach Asia by sailing west.

• To reach Asia by sailing North.

• To reach Russia by sailing west.

What factors contributed to the Age of Exploration?

• Wealth

• The desire for new trade routes .

• Navigational technology and land

• New navigational technologies, desire for new trade routes, and gold

Which countries were involved?

• England, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, and France

• England and Russia

• France, North America, and Spain

• Portugal, The Netherlands, and North America

What was the most likely effect of the success of Columbus’ first voyage to the New World?

• Other European countries began to plan explorations.

• Spain got all the gold from the New World.

• Spain claimed all of the land in the New World.

• A new trade route to Asia was found.

the supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found

• The Americas

• The Northwest Passage

• The East Indies

• colony

an early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars

• astrolabe

• compass

• cash crop

• colony

a person who travels in search of new geographical information

• explorer

• conquistador

• archaeologist

• colony

the name that Europeans used to refer to the Americas

• The New World

• The Americas

• Age of Exploration

• East Indies