The age of exploration

Questions

1. Which valuable goods did European merchants mainly hope to reach in Asia?

   • Coal
   • Cotton cloth
   • Spices
   • Tea sets
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   Spices

2. Why were Europeans eager to find a sea route to Asia?

   • To build new railways
   • To escape cold winters
   • To find new sports
   • To trade directly and avoid costly middlemen
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   To trade directly and avoid costly middlemen

3. Which new tool helped sailors find their direction at sea?

   • The magnetic compass
   • The printing press
   • The steam gauge
   • The telescope camera
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   The magnetic compass

4. Which explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, reached the Caribbean?

   • Christopher Columbus
   • Ferdinand Magellan
   • James Cook
   • Vasco da Gama
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   Christopher Columbus

5. Who led the first Portuguese voyage by sea from Europe to India?

   • Amerigo Vespucci
   • Bartolomeu Dias
   • Marco Polo
   • Vasco da Gama
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   Vasco da Gama

6. Whose expedition was the first to sail around the whole world?

   • Cabral's expedition
   • Cartier's expedition
   • Columbus's expedition
   • Magellan's expedition
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   Magellan's expedition

7. What is the Columbian Exchange?

   • A Spanish bank in the Caribbean
   • A trade fair in Lisbon
   • A treaty dividing the world
   • Transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Americas and the Old World
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   Transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Americas and the Old World

8. Which crop from the Americas became a staple food in Europe?

   • Olive
   • Potato
   • Rice
   • Wheat
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   Potato

9. What was the triangular trade?

   • A tax on three goods
   • A trade among three Asian ports
   • A trade route around Australia
   • A trade route linking Europe, Africa and the Americas
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   A trade route linking Europe, Africa and the Americas

10. What was one major effect of European arrival on Indigenous peoples of the Americas?

    • Deadly diseases caused huge population loss
    • Their languages became universal
    • Their populations doubled quickly
    • They gained new lands in Europe
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    Deadly diseases caused huge population loss

11. Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa. (True or false?)

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    True

12. Horses were already living wild across the Americas before Europeans arrived in 1492. (True or false?)

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    False

13. Silver from American mines became an important part of world trade after the voyages. (True or false?)

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    True

14. Which Portuguese prince, known as 'the Navigator', sponsored early voyages along Africa? (Answer out loud)

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    Prince Henry

15. Which ocean did Columbus cross in 1492? (Answer out loud)

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    The Atlantic Ocean

16. What name is given to the forced transport of Africans to work in the Americas? (Answer out loud)

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    The transatlantic slave trade

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