Study Guide for Age of Exploration
Date of your test______
Remember! Your tests are cumulative. Look back at Native Americans, Regions, and Bodies of Water too.
Answer the questions on this sheet and study the following:
1. Your two SOL Sheets- USI.4a, 4b, 4c.
2. Review all notes and activities in your spiral. Look at the Sunken Ship activity. Be sure to play all activities associated with the Age of Exploration found on my Quia site. Read my messages too.
3. Motivations – economic, religious and competition (Make a full list.)
Obstacles- see all of the ones we have studies such as poor maps and lack of navigational tools. (Make a full list.)
Accomplishments- such as the exchange of goods and ideas (Make a full list.)
4. What is a primary document? Give an example of one in this space. ______________
5. Why were the European countries competing for power in North America?
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6. What region was explored by England?
England= _________________
Who explored and claimed land first for the English? _____________________
7. What region was explored and claimed for France? ____________________________________________
Robert La Salle explored_____________ and claimed ___________________________for his King.
Champlain ____________ for France.
8. What region was explored by Spain? __________________________________________________________________Who explored for Spain? _____________
What was he looking for? _______________
What land was claimed by Spain? ________________________________________________________________________
9. What region was explored by Portugal? _________________________________________________________________
What did Prince Henry Do to aid the explorers? ____________________________________________________________________
What country did the Portuguese trade with?
10.Review the map showing the Routes for the Explorers and their sponsor countries. Can you identify the explorer and the country he explored for if you are shown the map?
11. What kind of cultural interaction did the Spanish have with the Native Americans? ____________________________________________________________________________
What kind of cultural interaction did the French have with the Native Americans? ____________________________________________________________________________
What kind of cultural interaction did the English have with the Native Americans? ____________________________________________________________________________
Be sure to note that along with learning farming techniques from the Native Americans they also traded and established settlements. This meant that they claimed land that the Native Americans believed no one could own. The Natives believed that land was to be shared.
11. What were the areas of conflict that resulted from the meeting of two worlds already old?
1. They fought over _________.
2. They competed for _________.
3. They viewed each other as aliens because their ______ were so different.
4. Europeans died of diseases they caught in the New World. The Native Americans died of diseases that the Europeans brought into them.
5. The differences in the ________ and ___________________________ of the
Native Americans and the Europeans often led to major misunderstandings.
12. Know the names of the African Societies- Ghana, Mali and Songhai. They all 3 became powerful by controlling the trade in West Africa.
Review the information on the African Kingdom maps with notes. What did the explorers want to get the most from Africa? ____________
The Europeans brought the Africans things like
Metals, cloth and manufactured good that they traded for_________________.
How long did you study? _______________________ Student Signature___________________________
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