Age Of Exploration Quiz One - Not Pages 1-3

Question 1

What did explorers cross the uncharted oceans in search of

Answer 1

Gold glory god

Question 2

The spice trade was controlled by …

Answer 2

The Arabs and Venetians who traded with china and india

Question 3

What caused the explorers to use the sea for trade?

Answer 3

The danger of overland trade

Question 4

What were 4 other motivations behind the desire to explore?

Answer 4

1- profitable trade with Asia
2-stop the spread of Islam
3-spread Christianity
4-new learning

Question 5

What were 3 things necessary in order to explore

Answer 5

1sailors trained to navigate
2accurate maps
3 oceangoing ships

Question 6

Who invented the astrolabe

Answer 6

Arabs

Question 7

Who invented the compass

Answer 7

Chinese

Question 8

Astrolabe

Answer 8

A device that determined the altitude of the sun or other heavenly bodies to identify a ships location and direction of travel

Question 9

Cartographer

Answer 9

Map maker

Question 10

What did Ptolemy introduce

Answer 10

The grid system (uses latitude and longitude)

Question 11

Lateen

Answer 11

A triangle shapes sail that allowed ships to sail with or against the wind

Question 12

Multiple masts

Answer 12

Increased the speed of a ship

Question 13

Stern rudder

Answer 13

Made ships easier to maneuver because the rudder was in the rear instead of on the side of the ship

Question 14

Caravel

Answer 14

The first ship to incorporate the lateen, multiple masts, and a stern rudder

Question 15

Prince Henry the navigator

Answer 15

Portuguese royalty who brought together map makers, mathematicians, and astronomers to study navigation

Question 16

Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 16

A Portuguese explorer who rounded the southern it off Africa (the cape of storms / good hope)

Question 17

Vasco da gama

Answer 17

Went around the cape of good hope to India and proved that it was possible to reach the east by ships ( it was still dangerous)

Question 18

King Ferdinand and queen Isabella

Answer 18

King and queen of Spain who sponsored Christoper Columbus

Question 19

What were the three ships Christopher sailed on to find a water route to the east and riches

Answer 19

1- Nina
2-Pinta
3-Santa Maria

Question 20

What did Christopher calculate that the distance to India from Spain would be

Answer 20

2200

Question 21

What did Columbus believe he landed on and what did he really discover

Answer 21

He believed he landed in Aisha but he really landed on the Bahamas and discovered the Americas, or the new world

Question 22

What did Columbus name the islanders he found

Answer 22

Indians

Question 23

What were the three islands of Hispaniola that Columbus and his men sailed around in search for gold

Answer 23

1-Haiti
2-Cuba
3-the Dominican Republic

Question 24

Ameritech Vespucci

Answer 24

Made a map with Columbus’s discoveries and called them the new world ( America was named after him)

Question 25

How did Spain and Portugal decide who got what of the new land

Answer 25

The pope took a map and drew the line of demarcation from the North Pole to the South Pole. Anything to the right was Portugals and anything to the left was spains

Question 26

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 26

A compromise between Spain and Portugal to move the pope line to the left ( this is why Brazil doesn’t speak Spanish and the rest of South America does.)