Unit 2
Age of Exploration
Lessons 1-4
Vocabulary
1. A place to live that is set up in a new area
A. emperor
2. The ruler of an empire
B. longitude
3. A place where people meet to trade goods
C. trading post
4. To change
D. settlement
5. A distance east or west of the prime meridian,
usually measured in degrees
E. reform
F. astrolabe
6. A tool that shows which direction is north
G. compass
7. A tool that helped sailors use the sun and
stars to find their location
8.
A river that flows into a larger river or lake
A. convert
9.
A long and carefully organized trip
B. expedition
10. A science used by sailors to find their place and
plan their route
C. tributary
D. slavery
11. A person who makes maps or charts
E. cartographer
12. The practice of owning people and forcing them
to work without pay
13. A distance north or south of the equator,
usually measured in degrees
14. To change someone’s or one’s own beliefs
F. navigation
G. latitude
15. A person who starts a new business
A. charter
16. The act of sailing around something
B. circumnavigation
17. An official document from an authority to do
something
C. entrepreneur
D. mission
18. An area or place that is ruled by a distant
country
19. A place set up by a religious group to teach
religion and other ways of life to native people
E. colony
Marco Polo’s book caused
A.
B.
C.
D.
more books on swimming games to be
written
more people to be interested in Asia
him to become extremely wealthy
war between Spain and Portugal
New technology in the 1400’s
A.
B.
C.
D.
made crossing the Northwest Passage
possible
helped Marco Polo with his expedition
made travel by sea change
lead to the Protestant Reformation
Which of the following was NOT a
goal of European exploration?
A.
B.
C.
D.
finding new trade routes to Asia
controlling new land
establishing colonies
ending the Reconquista
Converting people to Catholicism was the
goal of
A.
B.
C.
D.
the American Indians
the Reconquista
the Counter Reformation
Amerigo Vespucci
Name two present-day cities
founded by the Dutch (from the
Netherlands).
A.
B.
C.
D.
New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
Boston and Albany
New York City and Albany
Buffalo and New York City
Atlantic trade routes carried goods and
Africa __,
enslaved people between
, and ____
Europe
the Americas .
Which countries claimed land in the
Americas (click to find out)?
Spain
China
Germany
Russia
Portugal
France
England
Sweden
Belgium
The Netherlands
Why did colonists often build settlements
near the sea or along rivers?
Colonists settled near bodies of water so that
people
they could move
and
supplies easier.
Finding new trade routes were important
to European leaders and early explorers
for all of the reasons EXCEPT
A.
B.
C.
D.
the current sea routes were risky
flooding had destroyed all the crops
thieves robbed merchants
travel between Europe and Asia was costly
and dangerous
In 1540, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
explored Mexico looking for cities of gold. He
never found them, but the area later
A.
B.
C.
D.
was settled with missions
was attacked by aliens
was inhabited by tiny gremlins
was populated with thousands of
leprechauns
Name two tools that improved sailing
and explain why they were important.
Two tools that improved sailing were the
magnetic compass and the
_________________
astrolabe
magnetic compass
_____________.
The ________________
north
shows which direction is ___________,
and
astrolabe
the ____________
helped sailors use the
sun and stars to find their location.
Europeans now felt it was possible to search
Asia
for new sea routes to _________.
What was the Northwest Passage? How did the
search for the Northwest Passage and Magellan's
circumnavigation of the globe change Europeans’
understanding of the world?
water ________
route
The Northwest Passage is a ________
North
America
through __________
___________
that would
Pacific
Asia
lead to the _________
Ocean and thus to _____.
The Europeans now knew that the riches of Asia
westward route.
could be reached by way of a __________
How did the New World become known
as America?
Amerigo __________lead
Vespucci
__________
an expedition
south of where Columbus had landed. A
cartographer suggested naming this New
___________
World after Vespucci, so they called it America.
Name the geographic areas that each of
the following countries settled in the
New World:
Spain
Present-day
Central America
South America
France
Eastern North America
Portugal
Eastern South America
How did the Age of Exploration change
the world? Mention at least ONE
European Explorer and explain his role.