Mighty Map Skills
About Age of Exploration
Extreme Explorers
Constant Cooperation and Conflict
Brilliant Bonus!
100
What is this tool?
What is a Compass Rose?
100
What are the 3G's?
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
100
Which explorers searched for Spain?
Who is Columbus, de Soto, and Balboa?
100
Was the more cooperation or conflict between the European Explorers and American Indians?
What is conflict?
100
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Who is Hernando de Soto?
200
What is the invisible line that separates the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the Equator?
200
Which country was highly motivated by spreading Christianity in the New World?
What is Spain?
200
What did Vasco Nunez de Balboa discover?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
* An unknown ocean west of the Americas
200
Which country brought horses to the Americas?
What is Spain?
200
Where did Columbus think he was when he found new land?
What is India?
300
Asia is located ______ of the equator and _____ of the Prime Meridian.
Hint* North, South, East, West
What is North of the Equator and East of the Prime Meridian?
300
Many Explorers wanted to find a sea route in the north to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. What was this route called?
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
Which one of the 3 G's did Hernando de Soto desire the most?
What is gold?
300
What good were the American Indians interested in when trading with the Explorers?
What are metal weapons, pots, and pans?
300
Who explored near present day New York and found a river that he named after himself?
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
What hemisphere is the United States in according to the map shown? Reference the Prime Meridian.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
400
Many Explorers wanted a faster route to Asia. What would a faster route to Asia improve?
What is trade?
400
John Cabot claimed land for which country?
What is England?
400
Who believed that land should be used and shared by all?
Who is the American Indian people?
400
What is the massive transfer of plants, animals, culture, populations, disease between the Old World and the New World?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
What is the approximate location of Atlanta?
What is 33.50N and 84.50W.?
500
Why did many explorers struggle to plan for their journey? They did not have a ____ to show where to go.
What is a map?
500
Jacques Cartier and the French were mostly interested in what?
What is trade?
500
Spanish missionaries spread Christianity, but some American Indians did not want to change their religion. Is this cooperation or conflict?
What is conflict?
500
Who was responsible for destroying American Empires such as the Inca Empire?
Who are Spanish Conquistadors?