Age of Exploration Quiz
Social Studies
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the 1400s, the first Portuguese explorers sailed along the coast of Africa. What was the main purpose of their voyages?
finding a water route to India’s spices
finding natives who would trade with them
finding slaves who could be sold in other lands
finding a new world that no European had ever seen
2.
MATCH QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Match the explorers' pictures to their names
Juan Ponce de Leon
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Pizzaro
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand Magellan
3.
MATCH QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Match the explorers' pictures to their names
Bartolomeu Dias
Marco Polo
Prince Henry
Vasco de Gama
4.
CATEGORIZE QUESTION
3 mins • 13 pts
Sort each explorer into the country they explored for. It may be different than their nationality.
Groups:
(a) Spain
,
(b) Portugal
,
(c) England
,
(d) France
Francisco Pizzaro
Vasco de Gama
Prince Henry
John Smith
Bartolomeu Dias
Samuel de Champlain
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Jacques Marquette
Walter Raleigh
Louis Jolliet
Jacques Cartier
5.
REORDER QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Place the colonization of the New World by Europeans in the correct chronological order
France
England
Spain
6.
LABELING QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Identify the locations of European settlement in North America
7.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
The largest colony in the New World was (a) . Although, the first English settlement was (b) it was ultimately unsuccessful. Instead, English settlement begins with (c) in modern-day Virginia.
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