Test your knowledge: Age of Exploration

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🧭 Motivations: God, Gold, and Glory drove European exploration.
• 🌍 Key Explorers: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan.
• 🗓️ Key Dates: 1492 (Columbus reaches the Americas), 1498 (Da Gama reaches India by sea).
• 🚢 Technological Advancements: Caravel ships, astrolabe, improved maps.
• 🤝 Columbian Exchange: Transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
• 💰 Mercantilism: Economic policy focused on accumulating wealth through trade and colonies.
• 📜 Treaty of Tordesillas: Divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following was NOT a primary motivation for European exploration during the Age of Exploration?
   1. A. God
   2. B. Gold
   3. C. Glory
   4. D. Gardening
2. Which explorer is credited with leading the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe?
   1. A. Christopher Columbus
   2. B. Vasco da Gama
   3. C. Ferdinand Magellan
   4. D. Amerigo Vespucci
3. In what year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
   1. A. 1488
   2. B. 1492
   3. C. 1500
   4. D. 1519
4. What was the name of the ship that was instrumental in exploration due to its maneuverability and speed?
   1. A. Galleon
   2. B. Caravel
   3. C. Man-of-War
   4. D. Battleship
5. The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World is known as the:
   1. A. Renaissance Exchange
   2. B. Columbian Exchange
   3. C. Triangular Trade
   4. D. Silk Road
6. Which economic policy, common during the Age of Exploration, focused on accumulating wealth through colonies and trade?
   1. A. Feudalism
   2. B. Capitalism
   3. C. Mercantilism
   4. D. Communism
7. Which treaty divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain?
   1. A. Treaty of Versailles
   2. B. Treaty of Tordesillas
   3. C. Treaty of Westphalia
   4. D. Treaty of Paris