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The Age of Exploration
What is a conquistador?
Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
The Age of Exploration
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Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
America
India
Africa
Europe
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What is a conquistador?
an enemy
a theif
a Spanish soldier or conqueror
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Why did SEA TRAVEL become more desirable?
people wanted to go swimming
boats were so cool
land was longer to travel than sea
land routes were dangerous
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What is technology?
books created for efficient research
scientific knowledge & ideas to create tools to improve life
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What is a merchant?
people who buy and sell goods
people who take over land
theifs
conquistadors
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What is a magnetic compass?
a type of sail used on ships
tool that shows us the stars
a needle that always points north
a map
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The Columbian Exchange is named after?
Vasco De Gama
Prince Henry
Columbus
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Besides a compass and a astrolabe, what other tool helped explorers navigate?
mermaids
maps
stars
puzzles
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what is an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people like smallpox?
devastation
epidemic
Columbian Exchange
exploration
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What is a patron?
a king or queen
a dog trainer
someone who gives financial support
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What route were a lot of explorers and merchants in search of?
route to Canada
sea route to Asia
route to Paris
land route to India
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A well known viking with red hair who was an adventurer
Magellan
Eric the Red
Prince Henry
Columbus
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Who started a school to teach navigation, map making and sailing?
Ms. Walmsley
Prince Henry
Eric the Red
Columbus
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What does "cause great harm" mean?
Columbian exchange
devastation
epidemic
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Type of explorer from Scandanavia
viking
merchant
conquistador
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What does circumnavigate mean?
sail completely around
rip off a piece of a map
break a compass
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The movement of people, animals, plants, cultures & even disease between the East & West is...
Columbian Exchange
devistation
circumnavigate
epidemic
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Who were known for their shipbuilding skills?
Dutch
Portuguese
Egyptians
French
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What is a colony?
a type of spice
an exploration journey
a settlement far from a country that rules it
a new concept of making paper
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What type of sailing was created that was lighter and triangular?
compass
maps
astrolabe
caravel
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First Europeans to land in North America?
Spanish
French
Finnish
Vikings
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How does an ASTROLABE help sailors?
points south
points north
shows us the stars in relation to the boat
tells how far north or south of the equator sailed
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What are trading posts?
a holiday celebrated in Europe
a prison
restaurant
stores and small settlements that goods could be sold/bought
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what is navigation?
siri
fishing
process sailors use to plan their course and find location
hunting
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Who led the search to find a sea route to Asia?
Vikings
Portuguese
Spanish
Conquistadors
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What's an expedition?
a map
a recipe
an organized journey
a book
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Sailors had begun using ___________ tools that improved sea travel.
fishing
life saving
navigation
