Age of exploration

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Age of exploration

By Sheila Cardona

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The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to

Africa

America

Asia

Europe

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Sailors used astrolabes to tell

direction

latitude

speed

time

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"New World" was a name given to the Americas by

spice traders

shipbuilders

American Indians

European Explorers

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A compass works by Earth's

large oceans

magnetic fields

spinning on its axis

orbit around the sun

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Why did explorers plant flags?

to teach Christianity

to help American Indians

to find their way back again

to claim land for their country

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What religious goal inspired many European explorers?

To visit holy sites

to live in poverty

to spread their beliefs

to learn about other faiths

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Which foods came from America?

wheat and rice

apples and pears

lettuce and cabbage

potatoes and squash

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What is a caravel?

getting, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves

the process of planning a route and finding one’s location

a journey or voyage

a small, fast sailing ship

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The process of planning a route and finding one's location:

expedition

caravel

Columbian Exchange

navigation

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What did people learn and do at Prince Henry’s school?

examined information

invented new tools

improved sea travel

all of these

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Why did European Explorers come to the Americas?

to gain land and wealth for their country

to fight the American Indians

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Which explorer was born in Italy but sailed for Spain?

Ferdinand Magellan

Christopher Columbus

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Why was feudalism popular in the Middle Ages?

countries did not have armies to protect them and needed the loyalty of the people to defend it

the Roman Empire forced them to use it

the kings were very generous and liked to give away land

it was the only way to fight the spread of Christianity and Islam

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True or False: Most people in Middle Ages Europe were lords and ladies

True

False

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What did peasants do?

Grow and harvest crops

Take care of animals

Lived on a fief

All of the above

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A king or queen who is a supreme ruler is called a ____________.

Top Dog

Missionary

Butterfly

Monarch

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The ____________________________began about 1500 years ago.

Modern Ages

Middle Ages

Contemporary Ages

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The peasant:

worked hard on the land of the nobles.

owned land given to them by the king. They lived in castles.

were the religious people of the Middle Ages.

were skilled workers and made products from materials such as glass and wood.

traded products such as metal and textiles.

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Two scientific inventions at the beginning of Modern Age were:

Printing Press and Paper

Compass and Space Craft

Printing Press and Compass

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Modern Age was very characterized by:

discoveries and scientific inventions

Conquest and space exploration

Printing press and Conquest

None above

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During the Middle Ages

was developed the Nomad System

was developed the Feudal System

was developed the Digestive System

was developed the Fire System

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Choose the main building from the Middle Ages

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Prince of Portugal who undertook initial expeditions to the east coast of Africa and the Atlantic ocean

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

Henry the Navigator

Vasco da Gama

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He completed a journey as far as Calcutta in India

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

Henry the Navigator

Vasco da Gama

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He was the first European explorer to arrive in the Cape of Good Hope in the south of Africa.

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

Henry The Navigator

Vasco de Gama

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Explorer and sailor who traveled west in search of a new route to Asia but landed on America instead.

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

Henry the Navigator

Vasco de Gama

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When you preach the message of Christ.

feudalism

regression

individualism

christianize

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To provide the necessary money to cover the expenses of a business or project.

regression

finance

caravel

feudalism

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Going backwards

feudalism

individualisim

christianize

regression

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Was a political, social, and economic system in which kings possessed great extensions of land divided into fiefdoms.

feudalism

regression

finance

individualism

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He perfected the telescope.

Galileo Galilei

Nicolas Copernicus

Johannes Gutenberg

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He perfected the printing press.

Galileo Galilei

Nicolas Copernicus

Johhannes Gutenberg

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He studied heavenly bodies, concluded that Earth went around the sun, not the other way around.

Galileo Galilei

Nicolas Copernicus

Johhannes Gutenberg

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is a navigational steering tool with a magnetic needle that points north.

compass

astrolabe

caravel

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instrument that helped sailors position themselves by observing the stars in the sky.

compass

astrolabe

caravel

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are light sailing ships they could transport great quantities of food and water with many crew members.

compass

astrolabe

caravel

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