The Age of Exploration
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Social Studies
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7th Grade
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Hard
Patrick Lindstrand
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Prince Henry
Astrolabe
Caravel
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Match
Match the following terms with their definitions
Sponsor
Circumnavigate
Astrolabe
Treaty of Tordesillas
Caravel
A person who gives money for an undertaking
to travel completely around the world
An instrument that measures the angle of the stars above the horizon
Treaty between Portugal and Spain
A Ship with square sails and triangular lateen sails
A person who gives money for an undertaking
to travel completely around the world
An instrument that measures the angle of the stars above the horizon
Treaty between Portugal and Spain
A Ship with square sails and triangular lateen sails
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Multiple Choice
What is this?
caravel
astrolabe
clock
medallion
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Multiple Choice
Who is this?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Multiple Choice
What is this?
astrolabe
airplane
caravel
submarine
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Multiple Select
Choose all that apply: What helped make Portugal the leading European power in trade with Asia?
They went to war with Spain
Prince Henry set up a school for mapmakers and navigators
Portuguese perfected the caravel
They used the astrolabe
Portugal set up trading posts along Africa's coast
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Multiple Select
What were Columbus's two mistakes? (Mark 2)
He circumnavigated the globe
He conquered the Aztec Empire
He thought the Earth was 2/3 as large as it really was.
Columbus thought he was in India, but it was the Bahamas.
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Multiple Select
What were two reasons Europeans sponsored explorations of the America?
Searching for gold
Searching for a shortcut to Asia
To go to war with other countries
No one knows
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Multiple Choice
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
It settled which country could claim newly-explored lands
It settled who can take spices
It settled who could name America
No one knows
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Match
Match the following explorer with their accomplishment
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand Magellan
Claimed United States and Canadian coastal lands for England
First to explore and map the coasts of the Americas
Conquered the Aztec Empire
Circumnavigated the globe
Claimed United States and Canadian coastal lands for England
First to explore and map the coasts of the Americas
Conquered the Aztec Empire
Circumnavigated the globe
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